The raison d'etre of the Medical Foundation is to validate the claims of clients and where validity is expressed, to offer help to those poor souls. The spectrum of that help has expanded as the Foundation has grown, but the basic aim remains the same - to try and obtain a safe haven for clients, where efforts to heal their physical and emotional injury can be offered.
- Professor Bernard Knight CBE, forensic pathologist and barrister
We accept referrals from survivors themselves, friends and family, GPs, solicitors, refugee community organisations or any other voluntary or statutory sector body. All services are free to the client.
How Do I Refer? Referrals must be made in writing using our referral forms. Either contact our headquarters in London, or the appropriate centre elsewhere in the UK, for copies of the referral form and guidelines for referrers.
The forms are also downloadable below as Word documents.
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The clinical referral forms above are for clinical referrals only and must not be used to refer clients for medico-legal reports. As a general rule, the Medical Foundation accepts instructions for medico-legal reports only from legal representatives.
(Click here for details about referrals for medico-legal reports)
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Address: Medical Foundation London For local groups in this area please view our local groups page. |
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Medical Foundation London: Services offered include medical, psychological and psychiatric consultation and treatment, adult and child psychotherapy, counselling, marital and family therapy, physiotherapy, groupwork, social casework and advice.
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Address: For local groups in this area please view our local groups page. |
Tel: 0191 261 5825 |
Working in partnership with Newcastle and North Tyneside NHS Primary Care Trust, the North East centre is developing a model of good practice for working with survivors of torture in primary care
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Address: Medical Foundation Northwest For local groups in this area please view our local groups page. |
Phone: 0161 236 5744 |
The MFNW offers medium and long term counselling and therapy to survivors of torture. When we do not have the capacity to take on a client, we will offer between two and five appointments to explore what sort of help is needed and will help the client access appropriate support. We will always try to see survivors for a first appointment as soon as we can, but we are not a crisis service. We give priority to those clients who are unable to access appropriate help and are in need of a specialist service. After we have received the referral, we will arrange a first appointment if appropriate. At assessment appointments the client and counsellor will explore what sort of help the client wants. If both think counselling will be helpful, the client will be offered counselling at the Medical Foundation or referred to another counselling or mental health service. A team of men and women who are committed to human rights offer counselling and psychotherapy. Due to the large number of languages spoken by our clients, where a Medical Foundation counsellor does not speak a language, a trained interpreter will be used.
Survivors of torture or organised violence who:-
Referrals for counselling must usually be made in writing, using our referral form. For copies of the form and guidelines for referrers, contact the North West Centre (address above) To refer for a medico-legal report, lawyers must write to the Asylum Team at our central office in London.
We accept referrals from survivors themselves, GP's, friends and family, refugee community organisations or any other voluntary or statutory sector body. For an informal discussion about referring a client or for advice and information about working with survivors, please contact the North West Centre.
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Address: Medical Foundation Scotland For local groups in Scotland please view our Scottish local groups page. |
Phone: 0141 420 3161 Note: Medico-legal report writing services by appointment through the Medical Foundation in London. |
MF Scotland offers the following services:
Holistic assessment: ensuring survivors access the services they need, with internal or external referral when required; to work with the individual to decide which service is most beneficial
Groupwork: we have an ongoing and developing programme of therapeutic group work including:
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