Table 5. Language used in consultation (where other than English).
| Consultation language | Practitionerproficiency in language used in consultation: | n | None | Basic | Moderately proficient | Highly proficient |
| Arabic | Arabic | 10 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 10 (100%) |
| Bengali | Bengali | 40 | 5 (12.5%) | 7 (17.5%) | 10 (25.0%) | 18 (45.0%) |
| Bengali/English* | Bengali | 4 | 0 (0%) | 4 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Gujerati | Gujerati | 3 | 0 (0%) | 1 (33.3%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (66.7%) |
| Hindi | Hindi | 13 | 1 (7.7%) | 2 (15.4%) | 6 (46.2%) | 4 (30.8%) |
| Hindi/Punjabi* | Punjabi | 3 | 0 (0%) | 2 (66.7%) | 1 (33.3%) | 0 (0%) |
| Katchi | Katchi | 1 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (100%) | 0 (0%) |
| Mirpuri | Mirpuri | 13 | 13 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Punjabi | Punjabi | 43 | 1 (2.3%) | 3 (7.0%) | 19 (44.2%) | 20 (46.5%) |
| Urdu | Urdu | 89 | 1 (1.1%) | 4 (4.5%) | 13 (14.6%) | 71 (79.8%) |
| Urdu/English* | Urdu | 3 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (100%) |
| Urdu/Hindi* | Urdu | 2 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (100%) | 0(0%) |
| Urdu/Punjabi* | Urdu | 1 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (100%) |
| Not stated | 4 | - | - | - | - | |
| Total | 229** | 21 | 23 | 52 | 129 |
*For consultation in two languages, the practitioner was assessed for the first language reported by the patient.
**This total includes 7 consultations conducted in a combination of English and another language.
N.B. This table does not include consultations where a third party was involved in interpreting.