https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2024-11-27.16684.h
NHS: Interpreters and
Translation Services
Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 3
December 2024.
Rupert Lowe Reform UK,
Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will
make an estimate of the average additional time taken during the appointments
for (a) translation and (b) interpretation.
Rupert Lowe Reform UK,
Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what
proportion of letters posted by the NHS were in each language in each of the
last five years; and what the cost of translation was for those letters.
Rupert Lowe Reform UK,
Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which
interpreting agencies are contracted to provide services to the NHS; and what
the cost to the public purse of those contracts is.
Rupert Lowe Reform UK,
Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many test
results have been translated into languages other than English for each of the
last five years.
Karin Smyth Minister of
State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not hold the requested information centrally.
Integrated care boards are responsible for arranging National Health Service
healthcare services to meet the needs of their respective populations, which
includes translation services.
The Department has no plans to estimate the average additional time
taken during appointments for translation and interpretation.
The Department also has no plans to collect information on the
proportion and cost of letters posted by the NHS in each language over
the last five years, for which interpreting agencies are contracted to provide
services to the NHS, the cost of such contracts, or how many test results have
been translated into languages other than English for each of the last five
years.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2024-11-15.14506.h
NHS: Translation
Services
Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 3
December 2024.
Rupert Lowe Reform UK,
Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what
information his Department holds on the number of full-time translation and
interpretation staff working in the NHS; what externally-provided translation
and interpretation services are available in the NHS; and if he will publish
(a) a list of the providers and (b) the cost to the public purse for those
services.
Karin Smyth Minister of
State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department is unable to provide a response about the number of
full-time translation and interpretation staff working in the National Health
Service, because the data is not held centrally. Information on the externally
provided translation and interpretation services used by the NHS, as well as
the list of providers they used, can be found in the following provider
frameworks:
¾ the Crown Commercial Service, with further
information available at the following link:
https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6141;
¾ the ESPO Language Services, with further information
available at the following link:
https://www.espo.org/language-services-402-24.html;
¾ the NHS London Procurement Partnership Language Services Framework,
with further information available at the following link:
https://www.lpp.nhs.uk/categories/estates-facilities-corporate-services/language-services-framework/;
and
¾ the NHS Shared Business Services Interpretation and Translation
Services Framework, with further information available at the following link:
https://www.sbs.nhs.uk/services/framework-agreements/interpretation-and-translation-services/.
Information on the amount spent under each of these frameworks is not
held centrally.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2024-11-21.15618.h
General Practitioners:
Translation Services
Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 3
December 2024.
Rupert Lowe Reform UK,
Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to
the Answer of 21 November 2024 to Question 14197 on General Practitioners: Translation Services, if he will make an assessment
of the potential merits of collecting data on the cost of translation and
interpretation services incurred by GPs.
Rupert Lowe Reform UK,
Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to
the Answer of 21 November to Question 14376 on Health Services: Translation
Services, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting
data on the number of (a) GP and (b) outpatient appointments conducted in a
language other than English and British Sign Language.
Karin Smyth Minister of
State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department has not made, and has no plans to make, an assessment of
the potential merits of collecting data on the cost of translation and
interpretation services incurred by general practices (GPs).
The Department has also not made, and has no plans to make, an
assessment of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of GP and
outpatient appointments conducted in a language other than English and British
Sign Language.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2024-11-27.16688.h
NHS: Translation
Services
Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 3
December 2024.
Rupert Lowe Reform UK,
Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to
the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15631 on NHS: Translation services,
which languages e-RS letters sent in 2024-25 were translated into.
Karin
Smyth Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Please see the list below which outlines the languages which e-Referral
Service letters sent in 2024/25 were translated into:
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- Arabic; - Bengali; - Gujarati; - Kurdish; - Persian; - Polish; -
Punjabi; - Somali; - Turkish; - Urdu; - Albanian; - Chinese; - French; -
Greek; - Hindi; - Hungarian; - Italian; - Lithuanian; - Portuguese; -
Romanian; - Russian; - Slovak; - Spanish; - Tamil; and - Wolof.
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