Doctors From Abroad Must Take English Test

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New checks will be introduced to make sure all NHS doctors can speak English well enough to treat patients, the Government has announced.

It comes five years after David Gray, 70, was killed by a German doctor on his first out-of-hours shift in the UK.

Daniel Ubani accidentally gave the pensioner 10 times the recommended dose of the painkiller diamorphine.

The locum was struck off the medical register in the UK, but still practises in Germany, despite admitting death by negligence in a German court.

Mr Gray's son Stuart, 53, himself a GP, said: "What Ubani had done was try to register with Leeds PCT (Primary Care Trust).

"They'd made him sit an English language test to see if he was proficient. He failed that, so he decided to apply to another PCT, this being Cornwall.

"They didn't bother to test his English language skills, put him on the list, once he was on the list he can practise anywhere in the country and he then went to practise in Cambridgeshire where he killed my father."

Last year, research by Pulse magazine for GPs found that 792 EU doctors were on the so-called "performers lists" of 51 Primary Care Trusts, allowing them to work in the UK. Of those, 657 doctors, or 83%, hadn't had their English skills tested.

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[xant14]

9 out of 10 patients will only speak Urdu or somat anyway, so why the sudden panic?

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Originally Posted by xant14

9 out of 10 patients will only speak Urdu or somat anyway, so why the sudden panic?





Were did you get that figure from figure sugest more Polish and Germans then 2% of Asian in UK and 0.5% Pakistani and Indians?..

Come to think about how did they passed Science and Physics? if they do not speak English?????

[xant14]

74.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.. the same place I get my statistics from.

[jordigirl]

am sure they do science and physics in other languages aswell as english sj

but to be a dr you need biology on another subject

the dr's in our practise are all english which is unusual

[Shady]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/doctors-abroad-must-english-test-022927924.html

your links are supposed to look like this sj

[PremierD]

that do mate ..

[Shady]

you'll go far prem

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Daniel Ubani accidentally gave the pensioner 10 times the recommended dose of the painkiller diamorphine.

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my maths is very very very very bad, but is this thread about speaking Inglish or a decimanl point in the wrong place?