The GP practice had seen an improvement in how well the Roma community engaged with its services since the launch of the trial, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Louis Jordan, an analyst at Bellbrooke Surgery, has worked in the Roma drop-in clinic since it began. <\/p>\n
He said when the first patients came through the door, many could not speak English.<\/p>\n
But he said they were now often able to provide their date of birth and added: “Some are even able to come to me directly with their problems.”<\/p>\n
“That’s where the frustration was – when they are ill they are not able to get across the reasons why,” Mr Jordan said.<\/p>\n
He said healthcare providers in the area had been trying to improve their services for patients from different backgrounds.<\/p>\n
“We had a big meeting with all the surgeries in Harehills, to talk about all the different cultures,” Mr Jordan said.<\/p>\n
“This has really boosted our understanding.”<\/p>\n
The trial period for the drop-in clinic is due to end but Ms Holea said she hoped to secure more support for the initiative, which has been funded by the GP practice and Leeds City Council.<\/p>\n
“We want to keep going and we need funding for that, we need money to go in,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We will continue to raise our voices.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GP practice had seen an improvement in how well the Roma community engaged with its services since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-188524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114692110610218430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}