Respond Integrated Refugee Health Service

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Respond is an integrated health service for people of all ages seeking asylum and refugees, staffed by trauma-informed experts collaborating with local, specialist, and third sector services. Services are predominantly delivered at UCLH, with virtual and community-based delivery options. Services include:

  • Respond Complex Care Clinic: Offers structured physical, mental, and social health enquiry with multi-disease screening, resulting in a personalised health care plan typically within 4 weeks.
  • Respond Infectious Diseases Screening Clinic: Focuses on screening for infectious diseases for asylum seekers.
  • Respond Paediatric Refugee Health Clinic: Caters to children and young people needing general paediatric review.
  • Respond Advice and Guidance MDT: Provides virtual case support monthly on MS Teams, involving specialists in refugee health, mental health, infectious diseases, and other key stakeholders.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

  • any person seeking asylum or who is a refugee regardless of geographical location or borough.

How to Refer

Online referral form

https://www.uclh.nhs.uk

Respond is not an acute or emergency service.

For any medical concerns or urgent issues, please ensure people seeking asylum and refugees are supported to access GP services and urgent care pathways as needed. Where indicated, local safeguarding pathways should be followed alongside referral to Respond services.

EMIS form

Referral methods: Email

Complete the Respond Integrated Asylum Seeker & Refugee Health Service Referral – UCLH and send to uclh.respondmailbox@nhs.net

Where to find the form

  • NCL Global Documents > Safeguarding & Social 

Not sure if appropriate to refer?

Get in touch to discuss further, uclh.respondmailbox@nhs.net 

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Review date: Thursday, 14 October 2027