Exploring patient preference regarding interpreter use in primary care.

Background: Effective communication is considered an essential component of delivering health care. Trained, professional interpreters are the gold standard for overcoming language barriers with those with limited English proficiency (LEP). However, LEP patients often use unqualified interpreters such as family members and friends.

Interpreter costs across clinical commissioning groups in England 2017-2018: a cross sectional survey using 'freedom of information' requests.

Background: Professional interpreters are considered to be the gold standard when meeting the needs of patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) in primary care. The models by which CCGs supply interpreting services (IS) vary. Many CCGs use external commercial IS, while other CCGs commission 'not for profit' services such as the Advocacy and Interpreting Service in Tower Hamlets, the Sussex Interpreting Service, and the decommissioned Sheffield Community Access and Interpreting Service.

What influences Roma women attending NHS cervical screening? Knowledge, fear, and passive consent.

Background: Recent immigration from Eastern Europe poses new challenges in engaging with women eligible to have smears. The Roma population have low socioeconomic status, low educational status, and a life expectancy 10 years lower than other EU citizens. An audit of smear uptake in four 'Deep End' Sheffield practices identified as having >1000 registered Roma Slovak patients, demonstrated smear uptakes between 53% to 40%, all of which are below the Sheffield CCG average of 73.

Influence of past trauma and health interactions on homeless women's views of perinatal care: a qualitative study.

Background: Homeless women are twice as likely to become pregnant and are less likely to receive antenatal care than women who are not homeless. Prevalent biopsychosocial complexity and comorbidities, including substance use and mental illness, increase the risk of obstetric complications, postnatal depression, and child loss to social services.

Aim: To explore the perspectives of women who have experienced pregnancy and homelessness to ascertain how to improve perinatal care.