Our clients include 
- Aids Council of New South Wales
- Agency for Clinical Innovation
- Cancer Institute (NSW)
- Carers NSW
- Clinical Excellence Commission
- Fairfield City
- Fighting Chance
- Health Care Complaints Commission
- Health Protection NSW
- Health Education and Training Institute
- Mater Hospital North Sydney
- NSW Local Health Districts
- NSW Ministry of Health
- Pink Sari Inc.,
- Sydney Children’s Hospital Network
- UNSW Sphere.
One of MHCS’s key roles is to provide and manage high quality health-related translations through our “value added” translation service and our state-wide multilingual health information database
- Position statement from NSW MHCS on use of machine translation (including Google translate) to communicate with CALD communities
- MHCS Translation Services Information Package
- Investigating the use of translation apps and websites in health care settings
- Translation and Checking Guidelines for Health Staff
- Translation Postcard
Why choose MHCS for translations?
- MHCS knows health. MHCS is part of NSW Health and is a state-wide service specialising in communication with culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
- We have extensive experience and expertise in providing translation services.
- We can provide advice on the most appropriate community languages for your target audiences.
- We ensure that translations are both culturally appropriate and linguistically accurate.
- We can conduct focus groups to design health messages as well as community testing to test translated health information with the target audiences.
- We provide a full suite of services, from print resources (including translation, checking, formatting, typesetting and design work/artwork), to the production of audio-visual in language resources.
- Our experience in audio-video production includes the development of voice over scripts, subtitling and production, as well as selection of culturally appropriate talent.
- Our translations are undertaken and checked by professionals translators, accredited or recognised through National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters Ltd (NAATI).
- We can also assist in developing a distribution plan to ensure your resources reach your target audience.
If you need a translation or more information, please contact us by email to John.Alsop@health.nsw.gov.au or SESLHD-MHCS@health.nsw.gov.au
MHCS Translation Services Information Package
Translation Services Information Package
Translation and Checking Guidelines for Health Staff
- Guidelines for health staff producing multilingual information
- Guidelines for Checking of Health/Medical Translations, Back-translation and other checking options for print & other media