Policy & Publications
This section will help you to search for policy, publications and information on issues affecting Gypsies and Travellers. Use the filter on the left hand side to refine your search.
Improving access to health care for Gypsies and Travellers, homeless people and sex workers
An evidence-based commissioning guide for Clinical Commissioning Groups and Health & Wellbeing Boards
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Friends, Families and Travellers Annual Report 2012 – 2013
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Commissioning Inclusive Services: Practical steps towards inclusive JSNAs, JHWSs and commissioning for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, homeless people, sex workers and vulnerable migrants
This guide will help to bring a greater focus on tackling health inequalities, by supporting Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies in identifying the needs of vulnerable groups, and setting clear priorities for how these can be met.
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Friends, Families and Travellers Annual Report 2011 – 2012
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Friends, Families and Travellers Advice on Inclusive Commissioning
Read this advice from the FFT team to find out more about inclusive commissioning.
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Friends, Families and Travellers Annual Report 2010 – 2011
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Travelling to Better Health – Guidance for Healthcare Practitioners on Working Effectively with Gypsies and Travellers
The Welsh Government has published a comprehensive and well-referenced guide for healthcare practitioners on working effectively with Gypsies and Travellers. The advice incorporates many recommendations from FFT.
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Friends, Families and Travellers Annual Report 2009 – 2010
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Connected Communities: Researching Young Travellers Mental Health
Pavee Point have published a new report recommending that mental health services should be targeted to combat the suicide rate in the Irish Traveller community which is six times that of the rate in the general population. The research on young Irish Travellers mental health needs concludes that current services are inadequate.
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Health on the Margins Conference Report
A post-event report of the Health on the Margins conference Friends, Families and Travellers held in partnership with LeedsGate in 2015.
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Inclusion of Gypsy Traveller health needs in Joint Strategic Needs Assessments: A Review
A report compiled by Rachel Wemyss, Friends Families and Travellers.
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Brighton Clinical Commissioning Group Integrated Care Consultation: Better Care Programmes
A summary of the report compiled for Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group by Michelle Gavin, Friends Families and Travellers.
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Gypsies and Travellers, urgent care, and local health services
A summary of research carried out for Brighton Clinical Commissioning Group by Friends, Families and Travellers
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Attitudes to medical records sharing in the Gypsy and Traveller community
A summary of the report compiled for Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group by Michelle Gavin, Friends Families and Travellers
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Gypsy and Traveller thoughts around wellbeing
A summary of the report compiled for Brighton and Hove CCG by Michelle Gavin, Friends Families and Travellers.
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