Health Services: English Language
(asked on 16th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to enable people with limited English to access healthcare services.
This question was answered on 24th November 2015
The provision of language support, including interpretation and translation, is driven by the requirement for all National Health Service organisations to comply with the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act 2010. The provision of such services by NHS bodies is a matter for local determination based on the composition of the communities they serve, and the needs and circumstances of their patients, service users and local populations.