Health Communicators is a pilot project within Aston-Mansfield Community Involvement Unit and set up in collaboration with Newham Primary Care Trust’s Health Improvement and Prevention Programme (HIPP) in March 2009.

It has been set up to help new communities learn about and access health services in Newham more efficiently.

The project aims to recruit and involve ‘health communicators’ from six of the newer local communities over a six month period. Health communicators will work within their communities to highlight the differences between the healthcare system in Newham and of that of their countries of origin, in order to overcome misunderstandings and misconceptions arising from the differences in healthcare systems. The project will help to highlight any specific service needs associated with a particular community.

Health communicators will also take part in creating clear and accessible information to help their communities understand and get more from the primary care services in the borough.

We are working with six communities in Newham:

Lithuanian

Polish

Portugese-speaking

Roma

Romanian

Somali

We have created websites for the communities in their languages. To visit the websites follow the links on the following pages.