Health Integration Team
The health integration team aims to facilitate the integration of overseas arrivals into mainstream health services and address inequalities in health and wellbeing. The team has responsibility for newly arrived asylum seekers residing in Barnsley, asylum seekers under the age of 18 without family, refugees, migrant workers and immigrants within the local community.
The team provides:
- Guidance on accessing health services appropriately
- Advice on interpreting services
- Welfare visits to gypsy/traveller roadside encampments
- Weekly new entrants screening with direct referral pathways
- Promotional education events on a local, regional and national level
- Health checks for GP registrations
- Daily drop in sessions for advice and information
- Extensive partnership working and community engagement in appropriate groups
- In service mental health nursing support service
Support offered
- Advice on registering with a GP
- Completion of new patient health checks
- New entrant screening, TB , BBVs, STIs and baseline bloods – with direct onward nurse led referrals
- Advice and support regarding accessing other relevant services
- Joint partnership working
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 UK – migrant workers, asylum seekers and immigrants which:
- Need advice or support with accessing health services
- Need support with registering with a GP
Updated: February 2025
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Service type
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ProviderSouth West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Physical Health
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Telephone01226 731686
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