This website is intended for healthcare professionals

02 November 2014

Volume 22 | Issue 11

ISSN (Print): 0969-4900

ISSN (Online): 2052-4307

Mobile translators for non-English-speaking women accessing maternity services

Communication skills are fundamental to midwifery (Nicholls and Webb, 2006; Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), 2009) Communication errors occur when the message becomes distorted; this can be due to the ‘sender’ and ‘receiver’ speaking a different language (Dysart-Gale, 2007) With an increasingly global society, it is becoming more common for contemporary midwifery practice to involve caring for recently-migrated women who speak different languages

More from this issue