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“I just try as much as possible not to get sick, I know you can’t prevent it, but if I had pain, I would never go [to the doctor], I can’t call the ambulance or anything, I would never have done that because of the fear.”                               
Joseph*, recently regularised
Government policies deter migrants from accessing healthcare
At the onset of the pandemic, the Government was warned that its Hostile or Compliant Environment policies in the NHS would hamper public health efforts by making migrants afraid to access healthcare even if they were entitled to do so. JCWI’s new research confirms that this is the case.
Almost half of all the migrants surveyed (43%) said they would be scared to access healthcare if they got sick during this pandemic. We did not ask for ethnicity information but 60% of migr…