{"id":53106,"date":"2023-11-22T12:18:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T12:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=53106"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:18:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T12:18:41","slug":"80-babies-of-non-english-speaking-patients-have-died-or-been-harmed-due-to-language-barriers-in-the-nhs-medics-relying-on-google-translate-due-to-lack-of-interpreters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/22\/80-babies-of-non-english-speaking-patients-have-died-or-been-harmed-due-to-language-barriers-in-the-nhs-medics-relying-on-google-translate-due-to-lack-of-interpreters\/","title":{"rendered":"80 babies of non-English speaking patients have died or been harmed due to language barriers in the NHS: Medics &#8216;relying on Google Translate&#8217; due to lack of interpreters"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38982\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1-360x233.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/NHS2-1.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of babies have died or been harmed in England due to problems with the &#8216;wild west&#8217;\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-46512550-8848-11ee-937b-ef209e0b5698\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NHS<\/a><\/span> translation service, it was revealed today. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12774287\/At-80-babies-died-harmed-language-barriers-NHS-shock-investigation-reveals-medics-relying-Google-Translate-tell-non-English-speaking-patients-need-emergency-ops.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Dozens of babies have died or been harmed in England due to problems with the &#8216;wild west&#8217;\u00a0NHS translation service, it was revealed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/newborn-baby-blood-sample.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53107,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53106\/revisions\/53107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}