Released 30 August 2022
Request:
- How much the trust spent on foreign interpreters in each of the following financial years: 2019-20; 2020-21 and 2021-22.
- A breakdown of the languages that an interpreter was needed to translate.
Information disclosed
Please note University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2021, with the merger of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust (BSUH) and Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WSHFT).
Since your request covers periods of time both before and after the merger, we have provided our information broken down by each legacy Trust and University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust where appropriate.
1. Please see the table below for information relevant to the spend under each legacy Trust and University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust:
| Year | BSUH £ | WSHFT £ | UHSussex £ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019/20 | 523,176 | 20,942 | Not Applicable |
| 2020/21 | 293,200 | 7,818 | Not Applicable |
| 2021/22 | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 486,635 |
2. Please see the table below for information relevant to this part of your request.
| BSUH and WSHFT 2019/20 | BSUH and WSHFT 2020/21 | UHSussex 2021/22 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | x | x | x |
| Algerian Arabic | x | ||
| Amharic | x | x | x |
| Arabic | x | x | x |
| Arabic/French | x | x | x |
| Armenian | x | ||
| Bangla | x | ||
| Bengali | x | x | x |
| BSL | x | x | x |
| Bulgarian | x | x | x |
| Burmese | x | x | |
| Cambodian | x | ||
| Cantonese | x | x | x |
| Chinese | x | ||
| Creole (Portuguese) | x | ||
| Croatian | x | ||
| Czech | x | x | x |
| Dari | x | x | x |
| Farsi | x | x | x |
| Fillipino | x | x | |
| French | x | x | x |
| German | x | x | x |
| Greek | x | x | x |
| Gujarati | x | x | x |
| Haitian Creole | x | ||
| Hindi | x | x | x |
| Hmong | x | x | |
| Hungarian | x | x | x |
| Igbo | x | ||
| Indonesian | x | ||
| Italian | x | x | x |
| Japanese | x | x | x |
| Kinyarwanda | x | ||
| Korean | x | x | x |
| Kurdish | x | x | x |
| Kurmanji | x | ||
| Latvian | x | x | x |
| Liberian Pidgin English | x | ||
| Lithuanian | x | x | x |
| Maay | x | ||
| Malayalam | x | x | |
| Mandarin | x | x | x |
| Moroccan Arabic | x | x | |
| Moroccan | x | ||
| Nepalese | x | ||
| Nepali | x | x | x |
| Norwegian | x | ||
| Oromo | x | x | x |
| Pallantype | x | ||
| Pashto | x | x | x |
| Pashtu | x | x | x |
| Polish | x | x | x |
| Portuguese | x | x | x |
| Portuguese Brazilian | x | x | x |
| Punjabi | x | x | x |
| Romanian | x | x | x |
| Russian | x | x | x |
| Sinhalese | x | x | |
| Slovak | x | x | x |
| Somali | x | ||
| Sorani | x | x | x |
| Spanish | x | x | x |
| Sudanese | x | ||
| Sudanese Arabic | x | x | x |
| Swahili | x | x | |
| Swedish | x | ||
| Sylheti | x | x | x |
| Tagalog | x | x | x |
| Tamil | x | x | x |
| Telugu | x | x | |
| Thai | x | x | x |
| Tigrigna | x | x | x |
| Toshanese | x | ||
| Turkish | x | x | x |
| Urdu | x | x | x |
| Uzbek | x | x | x |
| Vietnamese | x | x | x |
| Wolof | x | x |