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Maternity Alliance, 2000, "As Good As Your Word" is a useful resource for good practice, but I don't think there are accepted guidelines
On the justification for working with interpreters - locally, we find a clinical governance argument seems perhaps to get the widest acceptance. Some people think that patients should provide interpreters at their own expense, because they say interpreting is not part of health care, and they refer to practice in other European countries. One answer that seems to work is that health professionals need interpreters in order to provide a safe and effective service, e.g. to identify the patient, symptoms etc. So the interpreter is a specialist resource for other health professionals, just as they need to call on the services of other therapists, labs,
Thanks, Stephen
Stephen James, Head of Partnerships and Diversity, Ealing Primary Care Trust, 1 Armstrong Way, Southall, Middlesex UB2 4SA. Tel: 020 3313 9318. Fax: 020 3313 9618. Email: [log in to unmask]
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Thanks for circulating this document, Mary - it's particularly useful to me at the moment as I'm currently writing my justification for working with interpreters & translators in my PhD research!
Do we have comparable national guidelines in the UK?
Thanks,
Alison
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The US based International Medical Interpreters Association has a new online Guide on Medical Translation available at:
Regards
Mary Phelan
School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies
Dublin City University
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