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NHS: Translation Services

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 3 December 2024UIN 16688

The question

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.

Answered by Karin Smyth

Please see the list below which outlines the languages which e-Referral Service letters sent in 2024/25 were translated into:

- 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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