In March 2023 we becoming the first Partnership of Sanctuary in the country for going above and beyond to welcome people seeking sanctuary into West Yorkshire.
The City of Sanctuary made the award following an assessment of our activities to provide safe, welcoming and accessible healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers.
This includes:
- setting up a Health Inequalities Academy and active Health Inequalities Network to understand and help address inequalities across West Yorkshire’s 2.3 million population
- migrant health communities of practice to aid collective learning, encourage innovation and create a support network for members
- fellowship projects focusing on reducing inequalities for refugees, asylum seekers and people seeking sanctuary
- co-funding an animation by Bevan to help refugees and asylum seekers navigate NHS services
Next steps include continuing to deliver Safe Surgeries training to primary care networks through Doctors of the World.
Find out what it means to be a Partnership of Sanctuary for attendees at an event we held on 16 March 2023 in our vox pop amateur video.
Catch up with a video setting out our ambitions to become a Partnership of Sanctuary and our ongoing journey. For more information see our news pages and our Partnership of Sanctuary newsletters.