Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of NHS patients who require (a) medication information and (b) patient information booklets in an additional language.
No specific estimate has been made of the number of National Health Service patients who require medication information and patient information booklets in an additional language.
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