The CALD Assist app developed by speech pathologists at Western Health's Sunshine Hospital has received extra funding from the Victorian government to be rolled out to nursing staff and for further development work so it can be implemented at all hospitals that are interested in using it.

Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy announced last week that Western Health will receive more than $270,000 from the $10 million Better Care Victoria Innovation Fund for the app, which allows healthcare workers to communicate with people from a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background when an interpreter is not available.