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Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.

• Updated: 22 March 2021

• Updated: 17 March 2025

• Updated: 4 November 2024

• Updated: 18 October 2024

Detention services order 02/2022 on the use of interpretation services and electronic translation devices.

• Updated: 21 July 2022

• Updated: 25 March 2024

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) provides lists of English-speaking translators and interpreters abroad to help British nationals find the support they need.

• Updated: 19 June 2024

This guidance aims to help providers of interpreting services comply with the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

• Updated: 24 June 2024

Nationality instructions about how UK Visas and Immigration decides applications under the interpretation acts.

• Updated: 17 December 2007

• Updated: 20 February 2024