A GP cannot treat what they cannot read. We turn discharge summaries, MRI and CT reports, histology findings, blood panels, prescriptions, sick notes, therapy letters, vaccination records, post-mortem findings and good standing certificates into clear English, using linguists who spend their working lives inside clinical language rather than dabbling in it.
Everything arrives signed, stamped and dated, with a declaration naming the linguist, their credentials and our UK contact line. Surgeries, hospital trusts, private consultants, universities, insurers, coroners and Home Office caseworkers all take it as it stands. Digital copy inside 24 hours, printed set posted wherever you need it.
Most people reach us on the same errand. They have moved here, registered with a surgery, and been asked for the history that sits in a folder from Warsaw, Athens, Lisbon or Budapest. Others are paying privately and want a consultant to see what a colleague abroad already found, rather than repeating scans that have been done once. Both need the same thing, and neither can wait weeks for it.
Precision here is not a style preference. A decimal place in a dosage, a unit written as mmol rather than mg, or an abbreviation read the wrong way changes clinical meaning. Values, units and drug names stay exactly as the treating doctor wrote them, and nothing is quietly tidied up or converted. Where handwriting or a faded fax defeats us, it is flagged as illegible instead of guessed at.
You are also allowed to ask for less. Discharge summaries often carry pages of routine urinalysis or supplementary test grids that the receiving clinician will never look at. Say which parts matter and we quote for those, with the certificate stating clearly what was covered. Sensitive files, including post-mortem reports and abuse evidence, are handled quietly by one named person from start to finish.
Tell us who is going to read the file, a surgery, a consultant, a university welfare team, an insurer or a court, and whether every page really matters. A firm figure comes back within the hour. Appointment already booked? Say the date and we will work to it.
Health paperwork is the most personal thing anyone sends us, so the route is deliberately short and handled by one coordinator. Nothing is passed around an office. Our professional translation services follow the same footing for every patient.
Scan or photograph each page, including annexes and any stamped reverse. Tell us the reader, the date you need it by, and whether whole sections can be skipped. Prefer paperwork first? Ask for our confidentiality agreement, or send yours, before a single page arrives.
You get one figure, plus a second one if you asked about dropping the test grids. Repeated hospital forms and standard headers are discounted properly. We will also say when a page adds nothing clinically, because charging you for filler helps nobody.
A second clinical linguist checks every figure, unit and drug name against the source before signing. The stamped copy reaches your inbox within 24 hours, quicker for an appointment this week, and printed versions travel first class or tracked to you.
Scan every page and annexe
Drop sections you skip
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Every health service writes its notes differently. A Polish wypis, a German Arztbrief, a Greek εξιτήριο and a Spanish informe de alta all serve the same purpose while looking nothing alike on the page. Assigning someone who already knows that layout saves guesswork and protects the meaning.
Health paperwork travels further than most people expect. Coroners, tribunals and compensation panels all read it too, which is why some files pass through our legal translation services as well.
A new surgery starts from nothing unless you hand them a history. Allergies, past surgery and long term medication are the entries that matter most on that first appointment.
Paying for a specialist and repeating a scan already done abroad is money wasted. Cardiology, oncology and orthopaedic reports come through here constantly for exactly this reason.
A UK doctor will not continue foreign medication on trust alone. The same paperwork supports a medical exemption certificate, so it is worth having done properly once.
Welfare teams need evidence before arranging extra time, adjusted accommodation or a support worker. Diagnostic letters and post-surgical reports are the usual documents they ask to see.
Serious illness can move an application up the queue or support an extension request. Caseworkers want dated evidence from the treating clinician, not a summary written after the fact.
Coroners and judges rely on the exact wording of a clinical finding. Post-mortem reports issued abroad are handled with care and returned in the format the court expects.
HR teams cannot log absence from a fit note they cannot read. A short certified version protects your pay and stops the conversation turning into a dispute.
Travel claims, injury settlements and critical illness cover all hinge on medical evidence. Assessors reject anything they cannot tie to a named clinician and a dated report.
Compensation scheme files often need a foreign specialist's grade and training explained alongside their findings. Both parts have to be exact for the claim to be assessed fairly.
Therapy letters, psychiatric assessments and psychological reports carry vocabulary that a general linguist can easily soften or overstate. Both mistakes affect the care you are offered.
Doctors, nurses and pharmacists joining a UK register submit certificates of good standing from their home medical council. Regulators want the stamp and signature carried across in full.
Flying with a condition, arranging repatriation or booking surgery abroad all mean handing your notes to somebody who reads another language. That works in both directions here.
Your diagnosis is nobody else's business. Files stay encrypted, one named linguist opens them, and we sign your confidentiality agreement before anything is sent. Clinics, insurers and production companies with wider requirements are looked after through our business translation services.
Some of the people below were mid treatment when they wrote to us. Others were arranging care for a parent, or holding a report nobody at home could explain to them. Their comments appear untouched, from surgeries and households across Britain, because a real account carries more weight than a claim.