Asthma UK
Asthma UK have produced basic asthma information in over 23 community languages including Arabic, Polish, Urdu, Turkish etc. available as downloads on their website. http://www.asthma.org.uk/all_about_asthma/faqs/index.html.
People can also have a discussion with trained asthma nurses through an interpreter on our Asthma UK adviceline http://www.asthma.org.uk/how_we_help/adviceline/index.html as long as they can say their language in English they will be connected to an interpreter with 20 seconds. Posters advertising this service are available FOC, please contact crandolph@asthma.org.uk.
Asthma UK has also produced a range of health promotion postcards in 12 languages in a bid to reach more people with asthma or carers of people with asthma within the black and minority ethnic communities.
The postcards tell people how to access the Asthma UK adviceline’s interpreting service (08457 01 02 03) if they have any queries about their or their children’s condition. The cards also direct people to Asthma UK’s website and the FAQ’s about asthma now available in 25 languages, visit www.asthma.org.uk
The postcards are available in Hindi, Yoruba, Igbo, Arabic, French, Bengali, Cantonese, Turkish, Urdu, Polish, Somali and Gujarati.
These postcards could also be useful for healthcare professionals who work with non-English speaking patients in their community. If you would like to request copies of Asthma UK’s translated postcards or find out more about Asthma UK’s work with black and minority ethnic communities, please contact Claire Randolph (020 7786 4922; crandolph@asthma.org.uk).
For further information please visit Asthma UK