[Margaret Pilkington]

I think that in the main the translators are to translate for patients.
I have worked with a vast number of Doctors in the past and most of them had good english, Ok they may not have understood the idioms and sometimes it was necessary to enlighten them when an older person explained they had 'not had a road through them in over a week'...or what a patient meant when they said they felt 'all mazy'.