Official UK Healthcare Partners
Language barriers are a major driver of healthcare inequalities, with providers often struggling to meet the diverse communication needs of their communities.
Around one in ten people in the UK speak English as an additional language. In large urban centres like London this figure rises to around one in five people.
The economic burden of language provision is significant. Individual NHS trusts spend around £260,000 every year on interpreting and translating services - a total system cost of approximately £175m.
Introducing Pocketalk
Translations in the palm of your hand
The world's best-selling handheld translation device is now available to UK healthcare organisations. Pocketalk is suitable for primary and secondary care, community services, emergency settings and many more.
Why use Pocketalk?
Communicate when it suits you.
Say goodbye to inefficient telephone hotlines and frustrating scheduling headaches, and say hello to an efficient and accessible language support tool.
Reduce interpreting expenditure.
Traditional interpretation services have their place but can be very expensive. Save them for the critical communication, and let Pocketalk handle the basics.
Talk in over 80 languages, and counting.
Pocketalk is more than a match for the UK's linguistic diversity, able to communicate in over 80 languages. Converse at ease and leave no service users behind.
Converse in complete confidence.
Communication shouldn't come at the cost of privacy. Pocketalk is fully GDPR-compliant with all data encrypted, and has been created in accordance with "privacy by design" standards.