[Margaret Pilkington]

When I worked in the NHS, we spent shed loads of money having patient information leaflets printed in foreign languages.
These were useless as many of the women in our care could not read them as they spoke different dialects.
We employed link workers but theu only worked office hours.
Anyone using any health services should have to find(and if necessary pay for) their own interpreters.
The alternative is to get these women to learn English.
Some of the women I looked after had been here in excess of two decades and still could not speak the language.