Translating our website

As per NHS guidelines, it's better for a patient to use an online translation tool at a device or browser level for two reasons:

• At a device or browser level, every different website you go to in your journey, for example, our website and the online consultation tool, will be translated.
• As a patient, you hold the risk of the information being translated inaccurately.

Each phone or browser tech company publishes instructions online about how to translate text in apps or change browser languages and translate webpages.

Although online translation tool can accurately translate individual words and phrases, they may not always be able to interpret the meaning of larger or more complex pieces of information.

If a website has a translation tool on their website, it carries risk especially if there is clinical information on the website. If you have images containing text on your website, this text won't be translated.

Google offer a browser based website translation tool which can be used to translate websites.