Young Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Views of Health Services

Key findings

• Only 4 of the 66 GRT young people (6%) were in education.
• GRT young people used only 13 different children's health and social care services in total, compared to 23 used by the general young population — though the top six services used were the same across both groups, just in a different order.
• The Health Centre/GP (to see a doctor) was the most used service among GRT young people, at 87.8% (58 of 66), followed by Hospital A&E (36.4%), Dentist (31.8%), Chemist/Pharmacy (24.2%), Health Centre/GP (to see a nurse) (22.7%), and Opticians (21.2%).
• When rating satisfaction and how "young person friendly" a service was, GRT young people were far more likely than the general young population to give mediocre ("yellow", 4–7 out of 10) ratings across nearly every service, and far less likely to give top ("green", 8–10) ratings.
• For example, on service satisfaction: 81.0% of GRT young people rated the Dentist as "yellow" (mediocre) compared to 15.2% of the general population, while only 19.0% of GRT young people gave the Dentist a "green" (top) rating compared to 82.3% of the general population. Similar patterns were seen for GP (doctor), Chemist/Pharmacy, Opticians, GP (nurse), and A&E.