About the Irish Health System

A guide for refugees and other migrants

The guide is in three parts;

  1. Part 1 gives information on how to access different types of health care, the services that are free and how the GP, Pharmacy and hospital systems work.
  2. Part 2 gives information about specialist services (dental treatments, eye tests, hearing aids, vaccinations) and some of the staff you may meet in the health system.
  3. Part 3 advises what to do in an emergency.

Available in: English, English/Irish English/Albanian, English/Arabic, English/Bulgarian, English/Chinese, English/Czech, English/Farsi, English/French, English/Georgian, English/Kurdish, English/Lithuanian, English/Pashto, English/Polish, English/Portuguese, English/Romanian, English/Russian, English/SlovakEnglish/Somali, English/Spanish, English/Ukrainian, English/Urdu.

Below is a poster with QR codes, these are codes that can be scanned by a smartphone, which brings you to the booklet 'About the Irish Health Service'. There are 21 QR codes on the poster, one for each language.

About the Irish Health Service PRINT poster with QR codes in 21 languages

About the Irish Health Service WEB poster with QR codes in 21 languages

Below is a poster with buttons as hyperlinks, these buttons when opened on a mobile phone or device will bring the viewer to the booklet 'About the Irish Health Service'. There are 21 buttons on the poster, one for each language.

About the Irish Health Service poster (PDF, size 1.3 MB, 1 page)