Health Inclusion Team
The health integration team aims to facilitate the integration of overseas arrivals into mainstream health services and address inequalities in health and wellbeing.
We improve the patient experience by ensuring access to healthcare services, holistic assessments, the right service at the right time and new entrant screenings.
The team provides:
- Guidance on accessing health services appropriately
- New entrants screening clinics with direct referral pathways
- GP registrations
- Promotional education events on a local, regional and national level
- Health checks for GP registrations
- Advice and support on TB treatment, or the signs and symptoms of TB
- Contact tracing
- Referrals to other services
- Daily drop-in sessions for advice and information
- Extensive partnership working and community engagement in appropriate groups
- Attend the multi-agency drop-in at Hope House and community events
- Welfare visits to gypsy/traveller roadside encampments
- Homelessness and rough sleeping outreach
Accessing the service
- Tel: 01226 731686
- Email: healthintegrationteam@swyt.nhs.uk
Base: Health integration team, 170a Sheffield Road, Barnsley, S70 4NW
Hours: Monday - Friday 9am-5pm
Who should be referred
- People new to the UK- migrant workers, asylum seekers and refugees.
- Inclusion health groups
- Need advice or support with accessing health services
- Need support with registering with a GP
Updated: July 2025
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Clinical support group
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Laboratory investigations and Infections
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Service type
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- Infectious Disease
- Respiratory
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ProviderSouth West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Physical Health
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Telephone01226 731686
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