{"id":73873,"date":"2025-03-30T06:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T06:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73873"},"modified":"2025-03-30T06:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T06:52:14","slug":"nhs-runs-up-80million-bill-on-translators-for-patients-who-dont-speak-english-in-just-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/30\/nhs-runs-up-80million-bill-on-translators-for-patients-who-dont-speak-english-in-just-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS runs up \u00a380million bill on translators for patients who don&#8217;t speak English in just five years"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/29\/21\/94618085-14550929-The_NHS_is_run_by_bureaucrats_who_lack_ideas_and_are_obstructing-a-1_1743282995377.jpg\" alt=\"The figures come after it emerged last month that the Department for Work and Pensions was spending \u00a38 million annually on translators for 90 different languages (stock photo)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Health chiefs have spent almost \u00a380 million on language and translation services since 2020 for patients who don&#8217;t speak English.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-14550929\/NHS-runs-80million-bill-translators-patients-dont-speak-English-just-five-years.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>Health chiefs have spent almost \u00a380 million on language and translation services since 2020 for patients who don&#8217;t speak English.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73873","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\/2023\/02\/nhs-app.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73873","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=73873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73874,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73873\/revisions\/73874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}