Monday 29 April 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7672
Date Request Received: 15/01/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 26/01/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: NHS Translators.
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: This is an information request relating to NHS Translators. Please include the following information for the following years: 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23: 1. Trust’s overall spending on Translation and Interpreting Services | |
| Answer To Question 1: All expenditure is coded to an account code entitled Interpreting Services. The Trust doesn't hold any further breakdown. Expenditure was as follows: 2020/21 - £17k 2021/22 - £15k 2022/23 - £34k | |
| Question Number 2: Total translators employed by the Trust | |
| Answer To Question 2: Salisbury Foundation Trust do not employ Translators. | |
| Question Number 3: The hourly pay for in-house interpreters | |
| Answer To Question 3: N/A | |
| Question Number 4: What languages do they cover | |
| Answer To Question 4: N/A | |
| Question Number 5: Total number of in-person/face to face interpreting sessions booked (break down by language and clinical area) | |
| Answer To Question 5: Information from contracted provider. Spreadsheet attached to cover the three time periods (FY on each tab). To accompany this answer to question 5 please also see the documents listed below:  Salisbury - Stats by venue - Language Empire.xlsx | |
| Question Number 6: How many appointments or procedures have had to be rescheduled/cancelled due to lack of an interpreter | |
| Answer To Question 6: We are unable to provide this information. | |
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