The HPA has put forward a range of recommendations to improve migrant health, including increased diseases surveillance, primary care support, such as language and cultural support, and raising awareness.

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Urge Congress to make targeted cuts in funding and support spending for primary care training.

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People living with HIV require hospital monitoring, but considerable support is also provided by primary care physicians.

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Prof Scott Murray, St Columba's Hospice chair of primary palliative care a Edinburgh University, said while cancer patients had good support networks, that was not the case with other conditions.

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The report includes a survey of primary care trusts in England conducted via Freedom of Information Act requests, which revealed that two out of three did not support a "muscle clinic" at local hospitals for patients.

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