Access to health care for people seeking asylum in the UK.

‘... I have a client who is now 22 weeks pregnant whose appeal for asylum was rejected last year, I understand on grounds of being 2 days overdue in her application. She is very vulnerable, has no partner, speaks little English, has no means of income, and is living in very poor conditions in a ‘flat’ above a derelict factory in Hackney. The premises has no electricity, or hot water, and is not secure from the outside. She ‘shares’ the flat with other families, seemingly of similar status, though many have left since the recent electricity disconnection. I am gravely concerned about her welfare, and that of her unborn baby.’