4. What Project: London provides
At Project: London, priority is given to people not registered with a General Practitioner (GP) or who have been denied access to healthcare. However, Project: London is not a GP practice and does not offer treatment for long-term conditions that need regular monitoring.
Specially trained support workers:
- Inform people about how to access and use mainstream services
- Provide information in the service users own language if necessary
- Help people to register with a GP
- Help to access specialist services such as dentists or counselling
- Advocate on behalf of service users if they struggle to make phone calls, organise interpreting services and by accompanying people to appointments
Fully qualified medical staff:
- Discuss health concerns with service users
- Provide short-term medical care before the service users are helped to register with a GP
- Treat most infections and acute conditions
- Issue private prescriptions from a limited list of drugs which will be available free of charge to service users through MdM UK’s partnership with Boots, which has agreed to donate the medicines for Project: London for two years.