{"id":214187,"date":"2025-10-20T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214187\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:04:14","slug":"health-study-focuses-on-gypsy-and-roma-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214187\/","title":{"rendered":"Health study focuses on Gypsy and Roma communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Stuart Griffiths, director of research, policy and impact at Yorkshire Cancer Research, said gypsy communities had &#8220;not been well-served by research and services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project aimed to develop tools and support systems to help the communities engage with healthcare in a way that works for them, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">York Travellers Trust, Leeds GATE and Care for Young People&#8217;s Future are amongst the partners participating in the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Cannon said she hoped the survey results would allow them to gain &#8220;a rich understanding of what&#8217;s happening on the ground&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Only then can we start unpicking that and find active solutions for people to get early diagnosis, better treatment and take the word cancer from a death sentence to just another illness,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is about a fresh slate &#8211; this is what we know, this is how bad it is, and this is how we make it better. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s about coming together &#8211; Gypsy, Roma and traveller people, healthcare professionals and partners &#8211; and being collaborative.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Stuart Griffiths, director of research, policy and impact at Yorkshire Cancer Research, said gypsy communities had &#8220;not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-214187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}