Healthcare

HC2 certificates (full help with health costs)

If you are an asylum seeker or a refugee living in Scotland, you have the right to NHS healthcare while you are here. This briefing tells you how to get full help with your healthcare expenses.

How to get help

The best way to get help is to fill in the online self-referral form. This gives us a chance to find out what the problem is and allocate your case if we can help. We also run drop-ins and outreach surgeries where you can get initial advice regarding housing, welfare rights, energy debt, evisas, and resettlement matters. All our services are tailored for people from refugee and migrant communities.

Positive Action Network

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Discover useful contacts and resources for people from BME, refugee, asylum-seeking, and migrant communities. Access a wide range of support organisations that offer multilingual and multicultural services. Resources throughout Scotland and the entire UK.

Healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland

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The Scottish Government decides how healthcare is provided in Scotland. This is not linked to immigration control, which is a matter for the Home Office. NHS Scotland does not pass patient details to the Home Office for the purpose of immigration enforcement. If you are an asylum seeker or a refugee living in Scotland, you have the right to NHS healthcare while you are here

How to sue the Home Office

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The Home Office often makes mistakes when exercising its immigration powers. The high appeal success rates bear testimony to this: as many as 50% of some categories of appeal are allowed. However, there are only some limited circumstances where it is possible to extract compensation from the Home Office by means of a court case.

Register with a doctor in Glasgow

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NHS list of doctors in Glasgow