What Does My Healthcare Provider Need To Know About Me?

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LGBT Foundation

Learn to navigate Healthcare as Queer, Trans and Intersex People of Colour to get the most out of your GP.

QTIPOC Self-Care and Healthcare

In these sessions you will have the opportunity to anonymously feedback your experiences of healthcare to the NHS whilst learning holistic healthcare and creative practices to bring home with you. Come to as many of as few as you'd like.

Dear LGBT People of Colour, Would you like to assist in improving the accessibility of LGBT POC in NHS by sharing your (anonymous) lived experience through sessions centred in joy; community connection; peer support; listening learning; workshops and shared meals. I﻿n this session we will discuss barriers you might have faced from formalised healthcare and how the pride in practice team can support you. The second half of the session will be dedicated to re-centring the nervous system through breath work. We know that many LGBTQ+ people worry about accessing healthcare services for fear of experiencing discrimination or even hostility on the grounds of their sexual orientation, gender identity or trans status.LGBT Foundation’s Pride in Practice programme works with GP practices, dental surgeries, pharmacies and optometrists to ensure that LGBTQ+ people have access to inclusive healthcare that understands and meets the needs of our communities. However when we have asked our communities about their experiences of accessing primary care services, we have learned that access and experience worsens for populations that already face significant barriers to healthcare. Experience is significantly worse for trans and non-binary people and the picture is also worse for LGBTQ+ people of colour and disabled LGBTQ+ people with people reporting higher rates of discrimination and unfair treatment. With this in mind, we’ve put together two sessions to discuss all of the above and how to begin to address the inequalities in healthcare that people from our communities still face.Have you ever had cause to complain about a primary health care service but wish you hadn’t because the entire process of sharing your grievances made you feel even more hopeless? If so, then this session is for you. Andrew Gilliver from Pride in Practice will be back to talk to us about how they work to support our communities in having our communities voices heard, not having to fight these battles on our own and how important it is to make sure that these NHS services listen, act and respond to us when we feel let down by them. All feedback will be anonymised. L﻿GBT Pride and Practice programme works with GP practices, dental surgeries, pharmacies and optometrists to ensure that LGBT+ people have access to inclusive healthcare and understand and meet the needs of all communities within the LGBT community. You can also find out more about how the Pride In Practice Team might be able to assist you in your health journey. B﻿y signing up to this session you agree to adhere to our safer spaces policy which can be found here: <a href="https://lgbt.foundation/who-were-here-for/safer-spaces-policy" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://lgbt.foundation/who-were-here-for/safer-spaces-policy </a>F﻿or any questions or concerns please contact: jass@lgbtfoundation.For more information on Pride in Practice go to: https://lgbt.foundation/how-we-can-help-you/pride-in-practice You can also email Andrew directly via andrew.gilliver@lgbt.foundation

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