EDITOR—UK asylum seekers and refugees have the same rights to health care as the settled population. None the less, refugees report difficulties accessing health care—for example, in registering with a general practitioner.1 They are also sometimes registered as temporary residents, which is detrimental for continuity of care.2 We sent a postal questionnaire to all 129 general practitioners in Lothian, an area in Scotland with an estimated …
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Katikireddi et al. (2004) studied this question.