Healthcare translation.
Medical and healthcare translation handled by linguists with clinical, pharmaceutical, or public-health backgrounds: for patient-facing materials, clinical trials, regulatory submissions, and community health campaigns.
Scope of work in Healthcare.
- Patient information leaflets and informed consent
- Clinical trial protocols and case report forms
- Drug labels, package inserts, and IFUs
- Hospital and clinic documentation
- Public-health campaign materials
- Medical device manuals and regulatory submissions
Healthcare clients.
- Pharmaceutical companies and CROs: clinical trial protocols, case report forms, informed consent and patient information leaflets.
- Hospitals and clinics: discharge instructions, patient records and consent forms, for patients who do not read English.
- Public-health programmes and NGOs: campaign materials in South Africa’s official languages, where plain wording matters as much as accuracy.
- Individuals: medical reports and certificates needed for visas, insurance claims, treatment abroad or legal proceedings.
Medical documents we translate.
- Medical report translation: reports for treatment abroad, insurance and legal use.
- Medical certificate translation: certificates for visa applications, insurance and employers.
- Death certificate translation: for estate administration, pensions and repatriation.
Where a receiving authority requires it, these can be done as sworn translations. Otherwise a certified translation is usually accepted.
How we keep medical translation accurate.
- Subject-matched linguists. Medical work goes to translators with clinical, pharmaceutical or public-health backgrounds.
- Second-linguist review. On patient-facing and regulatory material we recommend the translation plus edit or full proofread tier, so a second linguist checks dosages, units and warnings.
- Consistent terminology. Termbases and translation memory keep drug names, units and recurring phrases consistent across a trial or a product range.
- Confidentiality. Patient documents are handled in line with POPIA and are never put into a public AI engine.
Medical interpreting.
Some conversations need a person in the room, not a document. We also provide interpreting for consultations and appointments. See how this works in practice: Afrikaans medical interpreting in Pretoria.
The Healthcare standard.
A mistranslated dosage, a softened side effect, an unclear consent form, healthcare translation errors carry real human cost. Our medical translators are trained to the standard the work demands.
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