Life and health in Herefordshire Gypsy Roma and Traveller Communities

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Summary of report content

Healthwatch Herefordshire worked with the Core20Plus Connectors Programme to understand the experiences of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community accessing and using health and care services.

In Herefordshire GRT communities face a complex web of socioeconomic exclusion, poverty, environmental challenges and insecure housing conditions that collectively undermine their ability to prioritise health or engage with preventative services.

Barriers to healthcare access:

  • Discrimination and mistrust
  • Cultural incompatibility
  • Digital exclusion
  • Fear of authority
  • Mobility and transience
  • low levels of literacy

Health beliefs and literacy

  • Diet and smoking
  • Physical activity
  • health as crisis driven
  • Fear of finding out

Heritage and discrimination

  • Pride and privacy
  • Institutional exclusion
  • Generational impact

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General details

Local Healthwatch
Healthwatch Herefordshire
Publication date
Key themes
Access to services
Caring, kindness, respect and dignity
Communication with patients; treatment explanation; verbal advice
Consent, choice, user involvement and being listened to
Health inequality
Lifestyle and wellbeing; wider determinants of health
Prevention of diseases, including vaccination, screening and public hygiene

Methodology and approach

Was the work undertaken in partnership with another organisation?
No
Primary research method used
Engagement event
Interviews

Details of people who shared their views

Ethnicity
White: Gypsy, Traveller or Irish Traveller
White: Roma
Seldom heard groups
People who are geographically isolated
People on low incomes
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