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Ash Sarkar: “Some patients will feel more comfortable speaking in their native language.” Reform MP Rupert Lowe: "I don't care, they should speak English.” Every year, translation services across the NHS cost £100 million. In other countries, you pay for your own translator.

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Rupert Lowe MPvor 1 Jahr

It's quite simple. Speak English, bring a translator, use tech or pay for your own translation costs. The British taxpayer should NOT be funding NHS translation/interpretation.

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Domvor 1 Jahr

If I got ill abroad I wouldn't expect free translation services. It's my personal responsibility. The left wants to baby everybody all of the time.

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Marwoodvor 1 Jahr

I’d feel more comfortable if the BBC never booked her again.

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Stop the ride, I want to get offvor 1 Jahr

£100m for something that you can google. Make it make sense NHS

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Gareth Dorevor 1 Jahr

Free translation app on any smart phone. Done, saved £100 million

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Petervor 1 Jahr

Exactly what Rupert said. Everyone should be speaking English and if you can’t then find someone who can translate for you and bloody learn the language. Sick of all this nonsense.

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Mikey M - Repeal Devolved Parliaments.vor 1 Jahr

Rupert Lowe is absolutely right on this. Far left Sarkar is wrong ! When in Rome do as the Romans do applies !!

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Matt Cleevevor 1 Jahr

Why is it the taxpayers job to provide everyone with everything they want, what happened to individual responsibility?

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tony (macca) 🇬🇧 🇺🇸vor 1 Jahr

I'm sure you can get apps on your phone that translate.

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Don🇬🇧🙏🏾🇮🇱vor 1 Jahr

It’s true. My mum has been in Spain for 18 years. She to take a translator with her when she has an appointment.

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This clip has caused quite a stir - I stand by every word. It's estimated that the NHS spends £100 million a year on translation/interpretation. Is that a cost the British taxpayer should bear? The answer is a resounding no. I'm told that foreign patients feel 'more comfortable speaking in their native language'. To be entirely honest, so what? It's not our problem. If that's the case, they can bring a friend/translator - as Brits have to do all over the world if we want to access healthcare. That, or use tech/AI, which can provide rapid and incredibly accurate translation services. Not forgetting that we also have a huge issue with foreign nationals using the NHS, and then not paying. The Department of Health has confirmed to me that £100,000,000 was the amount due from 'chargeable overseas visitors' in 2022/23 for NHS treatment. The amount actually collected? Just £32,000,000. So yes, we should be more aware of people unable to speak English accessing NHS services - failure to pay invoices is costing us a vast amount of money every year. Clearly, exceptions should be made for sign language and Welsh speakers, but this is a minuscule amount of overall translation costs. Why should the British taxpayer fund translation into Romanian? Urdu? Bengali? And hundreds of other languages. Sorry, but it is NOT our problem. And you know what? A huge number of MPs agree with what I'm saying, but don't have the balls to say it. The country would be in a far better place if our politicians would outline uncomfortable truths, even if it results in being insulted and abused. I don't care. The NHS pleads poverty, then pumps money into translation/DEI. Health service leadership needs to get urgently get its priorities in order. We need a selfish NHS, that puts the British people first.

Rupert Lowe MP

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