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HEALTH PERIL FROM NURSES WHO BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH
LABOUR peer and broadcaster Lord Winston last night issued a warning about the health risks posed by the growing number of nurses in the NHS who can barely speak English.
Posted: Friday 9th September 2011
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LABOUR peer and broadcaster Lord Winston last night issued a warning about the health risks posed by the growing number of nurses in the NHS who can barely speak English.
Lord Winston said the huge influx of healthcare workers from Eastern European countries such as Romania and Bulgaria was causing serious risks to patients.
The fertility expert’s warning, sounded in the House of Lords yesterday, is bound to fuel anger at the previous Labour government’s decision to open Britain’s borders to a massive wave of immigrants when the EU expanded into the former Eastern Bloc.
And his status as a Labour peer and high profile television personality will make his criticism all the more embarrassing for Labour.
Lord Winston told peers: “Communication between the patient and the professional is of vital importance.
“We run the risk of losing it with this issue of nurses who can’t speak the English language and have been trained in a different way.
“I’m particularly concerned about nurses coming from the east bloc of Europe – for example, Romania and Bulgaria.”
"Communication between the patient and the health care profesional is of vital importance"--Lord Winston
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Lord Winston said that he was well aware from his work abroad of the “limited communication even in their own language” that such health care professionals had.
“If we aren’t careful we will increase that in our own health service,” he said. “I hope we can make the strongest case possible to make sure we get proper communication between patient and carer.”
His comments came as the Lords debated different training standards for health workers coming to work in the UK from within the European Economic Area and from outside it.
Labour health spokeswoman Baroness Thornton said her party supported the principle of freedom of movement and recognised the “positive contribution of European Union nurses, midwives and doctors”.
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