EU migrant health: did we forget the anniversary?

Brexit negotiations and European Parliament elections have overshadowed another event in 2019 — the 15th anniversary of the European Union’s eastern enlargement in May 2019. Around 2 million Central and Eastern European (CEE) nationals live and work in the UK. Polish has overtaken Welsh as the UK’s second most-spoken language. The UK CEE population continues to grow, with increasing Romanian and Bulgarian immigration. Although the impact of migration and community superdiversity on health has been widely described, limited exploration of specific CEE health needs exists within UK primary care literature. More BJGP articles refer to polish(ing) skills/furniture than Polish (or indeed other CEE) nationalities. Despite universal primary care ‘free at the point of delivery’, CEE dissatisfaction exists. Such claims are supported …