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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Vanessa Cameron
Vanessa Cameron*
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Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 26 , Issue 12 , December 2002 , pp. 476
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The College receives regular enquiries from Members of the College and GPs regarding patients who are unable to speak English. We are asked if we can give the name of a psychiatrist able to communicate with patients in their own language. This list is also used by the central offices of the Mental Health Act Commission.

The languages we cover at the moment are as follows (the number in brackets indicates the number of doctors who speak that particular language):

  1. • Azerbaijain (1)

  2. • Arabic (5)

  3. • Bengali (6)

  4. • Burmese (1)

  5. • Cantonese (1)

  6. • Dutch (2)

  7. • Farsi (2)

  8. • French (8)

  9. • German (4)

  10. • Greek (2)

  11. • Gujarati (13)

  12. • Hebrew (2)

  13. • Hindi (22)

  14. • Italian (5)

  15. • Kannada (1)

  16. • Konkani (1)

  17. • Mandarin (1)

  18. • Marthi (4)

  19. • Marwadi (1)

  20. • Napali (3)

  21. • Persian (2)

  22. • Portuguese (1)

  23. • Punjabi (15)

  24. • Romanian (1)

  25. • Sinhalese (2)

  26. • Spanish (4)

  27. • Sudanese (2)

  28. • Swedish (1)

  29. • Telugu (1)

  30. • Turkish (2)

  31. • Ukrainian (1)

  32. • Urdu (19)

  33. • Yiddish (1)

  34. • Yoruba (Nigerian) (1)

I shall be grateful if any Members who are able and willing to help in this way could write to me, giving me their contact address and telephone number.

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