Refugee Council: Language
Identification Chart
Interpreting
Service
This page gives information on the NHS GG&C Interpeting Service
and how to access it. It also provides leaflets to download
that explain to patients what the service is and what they can
expect. These leaflets are available in Arabic, Chinese, Kurdish,
Polish, Punjabi, Slovak, Somali, Urdu
Health In My Language
Translated information about health and health services in
Scotland
NHS Health
Scotland
Patient information in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, French,
Gaelic, Gujarati, Hindi, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish,
Portuguese, Punjabi, Pushto, Russian, Slovak, Somali, Spanish,
Turkish, Urdu
NHS
Choices: Health Information in other
languages (describes the pros and cons of using Google
Translate, and offers links to health information in other
languages provided by other organisations). NHS Choices allows you
to translate most of it's pages using Google Translate - click the
Translate button at the top of the page)
NHS Inform (English only)
Polish Information
Plus (NHS Education for Scotland)
Information in Polish on Education, Employment, Health, Housing,
Law and Your Rights, Libraries, Sport and Leisure, Money, Social
Work, Transport and Driving, Welcome Packs.
In Health: Child Health, Conditions, Forms and Signs, Health
Promotion, Immunisation and Screening, NHS Services, Pregnancy and
Childbirth, Rights and Responsibilities, Sexual Health
In Law: Domestic Abuse
Health Rights
Information Scotland
Information in the following languages and formats: Audio, British
Sign Language, Easy to read, Large print, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese,
Croatian, Farsi, French, Hindi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Pashto,
Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Sorani,
Spanish, Tigrinya and Urdu.
Multilingual
Health Information Directory (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde -
updated 2007)
Equip
(NHS West Midlands)
Links to sources of translated information and to support
groups and services
Multikulti
Information in Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi,
French, Gujarati, Somali, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Urdu in the
following areas: debt, employment, health, education, immigration
and racism & discrimination.
Ethnicity Online
Cultural awareness in Healthcare
Project closed in 2005 but useful information is still online
including information on good practice and links to patient
information in Bengali/Sylheti, Farsi, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese
and Urdu.
HARPWEB health
for asylum-seekers and refugees portal (no longer available
2013)
multilingual
appointment card
Muslim Health
Network
Information in English only
Booklets and resources for people with learning
disabilities can be found at FAIR. Some
are also available via NHS Health Scotland:
Keep
Yourself Healthy: Do I need a smear test? (2010)
Keep Yourself
Healthy: guide to having a period (2009)
Keep
Yourself healthy: a guide to the menopause (2009)
Keep
Yourself Healthy - A guide to having a smear test (Reprinted
2010)
Keep
yourself healthy: A guide to examining your
breasts (Reprinted 2010)
The Keep Yourself Healthy series also includes booklets on giving
up smoking, eating well and keeping fit, having a healthy
heart, and oral health - these are also available on the NHS
Health Scotland Publications pages.
NON-UK
Ethnomed
(USA)
Patient information in Amharic, Chinese, Hmong, Karen, Khmer,
Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya, Vietnamese
NSW
Multicultural Health Communication Service (Australia)
Patient information in a wide range of languages
Arabic
Reproductive Health Information Initiative
A Gynuity Health Project -
Gynuity develops educational materials on a range of maternal and
reproductive health issues.
Patient information in English and Arabic
Health
Information Translations (The Ohio State University Wexner
Medical Center, Mount Carmel Health System, OhioHealth, Nationwide
Children's Hospital, USA)
Patient information in American Sign Language, Arabic, Bosnian,
Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, Hindi,
Japanese, Korean, Marshallese, Multilingual, Portuguese, Russian,
Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Medline Plus (US National
Library of Medicine)
In English and Spanish
Selected patient information also in Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, ASL
(American Sign Language), Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Chamorro,
Chinese - Simplified, Chinese - Traditional, Chuukese, Croatian,
Farsi, French, German, Gujarathi, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Hmong,
Ilocano, Italian, Japanese, Karen, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish,
Laotian, Marshallese, Navajo, Nepali, Oromo, Panjabi, Polish,
Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Somali, Spanish, Swahili,
Tagalog, Thai, Tigrinya, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu,
Vietnamese