A Coventry company is launching an online system called Clairetalk that would allow doctors to communicate directly with non-English speaking patients.

It can be used on computers or portable devices and provides translations in 33 languages, 22 of which feature audio.

A trial was run at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, but it said it would not comment on the results.

The online system was used by doctors in the Women’s and Children’s Services department as part of a six-month pilot, which ended in February.

See: BBC News