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Saturday 30 November 2024
Salisbury Foundation Trust

FOI_7672

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: ¿´Æ¬Èí¼þ Translators.

Request Category: Companies



 
Question Number 1:
This is an information request relating to ¿´Æ¬Èí¼þ 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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