NHS spends over £23m on translation

Feb 6, 2012
Sometimes centralisation seems a very good idea.  How individual NHS Trusts have been allowed to duplicate straight forward translation work and waste millions of pounds is staggering.  

At the moment each NHS Trust arranges and pays for translation of it's material into however many languages it believes are necessary to serve it's patient population.  

If each Trust has to produce it's own advice booklets then translation can be centralised and substantial savings made.

A bigger step would be for the production of all standard advice booklets to be centralised along with translation of the booklets.  They could be available to NHS Trusts and patients both in hard copy and on the internet.   
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