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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Access to interpreting services in England: secondary analysis of national data Paramjit S Gill*, Aparna Shankar, Terry Quirke and Nick Freemantle Address: School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Email: Paramjit S Gill* - p.s.gill@bham.ac.uk; Aparna Shankar - aparna.shankar@ucl.ac.uk; Terry Quirke - quirkesinnz@; Nick Freemantle - n.freemantle@bham.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 12 January 2009 Received: 16 August 2008 Accepted: 12 January 2009 BMC Public Health 2009, 9:12 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-12 This article is available from: /1471-2458/9/12 © 2009 Gill et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Overcoming language barriers to health care is a global challenge. There is great linguistic diversity in the major cities in the UK with more than 300 languages, excluding dialects, spoken by children in London alone. However, there is dearth of data on the number of non-English speakers for planning effective interpreting services. The aim was to estimate the number of people requiring language support amongst the minority ethnic communities in England. Methods: Secondary analysis of national representative sa