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What
we offer
Health
Advocacy service is offered by our staff at GP surgeries, St.Leonards'
Hospital and Homerton Hospital Physiotherapy departments and Homerton
Hospital Sexual Health Department.
The
Health Advocates are often regarded as interpreters.
This is true but very narrow and incomplete perception. Interpreting
is one of the important functions carried out by health advocates
but is no means the only thing they do.
Services
provided
- Facilitating
effective communication between patients and health care staff
accross language and cultural barriers
- Ensuring
patients receive appropriate support and full benefit from the
health services
- Empowering
patients to express their own health needs and priorities and
encouraging them to ask questions regarding their health
- Challenging
discriminatory behaviour towards patients/communities
- Advising
patients on the availability of health and social care services
- Referring
patients to other agencies as appropriate
- Doing
brief translation
- Participating
in health/education health promotion work with health professionals
- Help
in finding and registering with a GP
If
you need further information on our Advocacy Service please contact
us.
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