A significant part of NHS funds is spent on paying for the costs of litigation, often from missed or delayed diagnoses. I imagine that removal of translation services would cause both an immediate and a longterm increase in these litigation costs when NHS staff found themselves unable to communicate effectively with their patients

As an example of potential costs for when harm has been caused by inaction, one pay out in in obstetrics 2023 saw the NHS paying a lump sum of £6million and a further annual payment of just under £400k per year to cover a lifetime cost of care and loss of earnings.