available on the internet (www.blackhealthagency.org.uk/drupal/vid eo) or can be ordered as a DVD from the Black Health Agency at cost price. Copies have already been requested by agencies as diverse as refugee community organisations, Citizens Advice Bureaux, and tutors of English as a foreign language, as well as health organisations. We believe that going beyond traditional healthcare organisations is the key to getting information out to the people who need it most.A qualitative evaluation of the film was overwhelmingly positive and provided useful feedback on how it could best be used, in combination with information on local services. GPs working in areas with high numbers of new immigrants, asylum seekers or otherwise, might like to direct their new patients to the film in order to ease their transition into the NHS.
Pip Fisher,
GP & Tutor to