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Article: Translation costs soar for hospitals, police and courts.
- Article from:
- Northampton Chronicle and Echo (Northampton, England)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2008
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Translation service costs at a Northamptonshire health trust have more than doubled in just three years.
The Northamptonshire Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) spent [pounds sterling]294,000 on interpreters in the last financial year, compared with [pounds sterling]129,000 two years earlier.
Translation costs have also soared for the police and courts service over the same period.
The PCT received a total of 3,812 requests for Community Access Language Service (CALS) interpreters between April 2007 and March this year, a 61 per cent increase on two years earlier. This represents almost half the 7,800 CALS requests made by public bodies across ...