Access to healthcare in superdiverse neighbourhoods

To date little attention has been focused on how the differing features of ‘superdiverse’ neighbourhoods shape residents’ access to healthcare services. Through utilising a cross-national mixed-methods approach, the paper highlights how defining features of superdiverse neighbourhoods - ‘newness’, ‘novelty’ and ‘diversity’ - influence a number of neighbourhood ‘domains’ and ‘rules of access’ that regulate access to healthcare. Issues of uncertainty, affordability, compliance, transnationalism and the diversity of community and local sociability are identified as being particularly significant, but which may vary in importance according to the nationality, ethnicity and / or religion of particular individuals. •New insight into the features of superdiverse places shaping access to healthcare.•New conceptual model of neighbourhood ‘domains’ and ‘rules of access’ to healthcare.•Highlights importance of contingency and relationality of super-diverse areas.