Non-English Speaking

These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.

Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style have been tested with user groups. Open the leaflets in one of the following languages

england English Urdu Urdu
albania Albanian india Hindi
egypt Arabic lithuania Lithuanian
bulgaria Bulgarian poland Polish
china Chinese (Cantonese) portugal Portuguese
china Chinese (Mandarin) spain Spanish
russia Russian French French
Turkish Turkish Punjabi Punjabi
Gujerati Gujerati Somali Somali
Croatian Croatian Bengali Bengali
Iran Farsi  

When booking an appointment please notify the Reception staff so that they can arrange a telephone interpreter for your appointment.

We remind patients that the practice will be closed on Friday 29th March due to the Bank Holiday weekend. We reopen as normal on Tuesday 2nd April. For medical assistance when we are closed the following options are available……please call NHS 111 or visit 111 online for symptom management advice. Alternatively there is a GP led walk in clinic held at weekends and Bank Holidays at St Oswalds Hospital in Ashbourne 8am-4pm. Please call 999 if it is an emergency.