The hostile environment in primary care: Qualitative analysis of a cross sectional survey of health care professionals in primary care

• Main Authors: Joanna Dobbin (Author), Francesca Burns (Author), Sebastian Casalotti (Author), Mariam Jaffer (Author), Monica Sharman (Author), Catarina Soares (Author), Josie Reynolds (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: In 2014 the UK government rolled out the then called hostile environment as a series of punitive policies designed to disenfranchise undocumented migrants from living in Britain. As part of these measures upfront charging was introduced in 2017 which saw patients being denied treatment w...