Table 3. Demographic and language characteristics of patients seen.
| Number of consultations n = 1008 | n | % |
| Gender | ||
| Female n (%) | 610 | 60.5 |
| Male | 395 | 39.2 |
| Not specified | 3 | 0.3 |
| Age, median (IQR) | 35 | (20 to 51) |
| Consultation time min, median (IQR) | 10 | (6 to 13) |
| First language | ||
| English | 453 | 44.9 |
| Urdu | 192 | 19.1 |
| Punjabi | 118 | 11.7 |
| Bengali/Bangla | 79 | 7.8 |
| Somali | 35 | 3.5 |
| Mirpuri | 29 | 2.9 |
| Arabic | 26 | 2.6 |
| Gujerati | 15 | 1.5 |
| Hindi | 8 | 0.8 |
| Hinko | 5 | 0.5 |
| Kurdish | 4 | 0.4 |
| Pushto | 4 | 0.4 |
| Farsi | 3 | 0.3 |
| French | 3 | 0.3 |
| Cantonese | 2 | 0.2 |
| Polish | 2 | 0.2 |
| Portuguese | 2 | 0.2 |
| Shona | 2 | 0.2 |
| Swahili | 2 | 0.2 |
| Telugu | 2 | 0.2 |
N.B. Eighteen consultations were conducted in languages that were used just once inthe study. These were reported to be Edo, Ezzik, Finnish, Henko, Katchi, Lithuanian, Lunyoro, Malayalam, Mandarin, Marathi, Oriya/Hindi, Patois, Romanian, Spanish, Tamil, Tswana Zulu, Yerba and Yoruba. In 3 cases, the language was either not stated or ill-defined.