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Refugee Council
First do no harm: denying healthcare to people whose asylum claims have failed
Nancy Kelley and Juliette StevensonJune 2006
 
 
This report was produced with the support of Oxfam’s UK Poverty Programme, and Pierce Glynn Solicitors. The authors would also like to thank the Refugee Council’s Specialist Team and health policy adviser for their work and commitment.“Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ can excuse indiffer-ence to individual suffering.“
 Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS,
In Place of Fear,
 1952
“There will always be, as there has been in the past, a proportion of overseas visitors who are … taken ill while they are here and receive healthcare to meet their needs and our international obligations. These people are visitors in need, not health tourists.”
Lord Warner, Parliamentary Under Sec- retary of State, Department of Health, Hansard, 05 March 2004, col. 967 
Throughout this report the term ‘refused’ has been used to refer to asylum seekers whose asylum applications and any sub-sequent appeals have been finally rejected.
 AcknowledgementsNote on terminology 

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