Hospitals: Languages
Department of Health and Social Care written
question – answered on 24th March 2020.
Ellie Reeves Labour, Lewisham West and Penge
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and
Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure hospitalised users of (a) other
languages and (b) British Sign Language have access to communication support.
Nadine Dorries The Parliamentary
Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
National Health Service providers working
with their NHS commissioners should be taking steps to ensure hospitalised
users receive access to interpreters in community languages and British Sign
Language (BSL).
NHS England and NHS Improvement published
guidance for Interpreting and Translation principles in primary care. This
guidance is available for NHS providers and commissioners to help them in their
roles providing hospitalised patients with communication support, whether that
is community languages or BSL.
The guidance is available at the following
link:
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