Here are some web-sites from which you can download up to date health promotion information in a number of different languages -

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/DH_4123594

Some Department of Health publications are translated and available electronically.

http://www.patient.co.uk/

Includes a number of translated patient information leaflets.

http://www.hiel.nhs.uk/

Go to Factsheets for information to download in various languages.

http://nww.patientinformationbank.nhs.uk/

The Patient Information Bank is available to NHS staff only at present, on the NHS net. It is being developed to provide print ready online information on common health conditions in English and 12 other languages, including Arabic and Somali.

A growing number of health topic specific web-sites are providing information in translation. These include

http://www.immunisation.nhs.uk/

http://www.5aday.nhs.uk/

http://www.food.gov.uk/ (Food Standards Agency)

 http://www.mind.org.uk/

 http://www.asthmauk.org.uk/

http://www.diabetes.org.uk/