Poverty proofing health care: a qualitative study of barriers to accessing health care for low income families with children in Northern England: anonymised transcripts

Although access to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is based on need and not ability to pay inequities in access exist which can exacerbate health inequalities. We sought to understand barriers to healthcare access faced by families living on low incomes through semi-structured interviews with twenty-four parents and seven Voluntary Community Social Enterprise sector staff.