Please see the Resources section on the Health Stream site for resources around health in general – including on healthcare charging and entitlements, the Immigration Act, resources on different topics relating to health (eg. FGM), links to organisations and specialist services and resources for refugee health professionals.
‘Working with people seeking asylum & refuge’ -a resource produced by Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust for their staff (2020)
‘Childbirth in the UK: stories from refugees’ is a powerful video created by the Yorkshire and Humberside Maternity Stream with women’s stories of childbirth (2015)
‘Birth with Sanctuary’ is a collection of videos created by the Yorkshire and Humberside Maternity Stream including women’s stories of birth, seeking sanctuary and working with sanctuary seekers (2018)
‘Striving for excellence in maternity care: The Maternity Stream of City of Sanctuary’ – An article about the need for a Maternity stream and the background behind it.
Other Resources
‘The pregnant woman within the global context’ – a model created by Dr Mel Haith-Cooper which considers the pregnant women in the centre of the model and factors in the environment (UK and home country) that can affect her needs whilst she is pregnant.
Royal College of Midwives pocket guide on Caring for Vulnerable Migrant Women
Statement from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on Maternity Charging
‘Improving Care for Refugees and Asylum Seekers: The experience of midwives’ – a report from Maternity Action (2011)
‘Pregnant and seeking asylum; exploring experiences ‘from booking to baby’‘ – A study undertaken in West Yorkshire, aiming to explore the maternity care experiences of local pregnant asylum seeking women, to inform service development (2016)
Three articles around the care of pregnant asylum seeking women:
- The first of three parts examining dominant discourses that influenced the perceptions of a group of midwifery students’ about pregnant asylum seeking women. NET article part 1
- The second of three parts exploring midwifery students’ perceptions of how to approach the care of pregnant women seeking asylum. NET article part 2
- The final part of three describing the development of ‘The Pregnant Woman Within the Global Context’ model NET article part 3
Antenatal
Facilitating antenatal courses attended by asylum seekers and refugees: An NCT guide for midwives, health visitors and education and support practitioners
Befriending
‘Evaluating the impact of befriending for pregnant asylum seeking and refugee women’ – The early evaluation of a befriending project located in Northern England, targeting pregnant asylum-seeking and refugee women and helping to address difficulties that they may face (2013)
An evaluation of the cost effectiveness of the Leeds based Health Befriending Network, a 3 year project undertaken by the Refugee Council (2014)
FGM
Tackling FGM in the UK: identifying, recording, reporting
FGM: Mandatory reporting – resources from the Department of Health and Social Care
Other Resources
Evaluation of a family health programme which was established in an initial accommodation centre (IAC) in northern England, by trained volunteers who were refugees and therefore peers
A study aiming to identify difficulties midwives experience when communicating with non-English-speaking women and exploring the feasibility of using mobile devices with a translation app to communicate in clinical practice.
