Plenty of highly qualified English speaking Filipino Healthcare staff (who can sail through the language tests) are being denied the opportunity of UK employment whilst the Eastern Europeans can put patients lives at risk.
Plenty of highly qualified English speaking Filipino Healthcare staff (who can sail through the language tests) are being denied the opportunity of UK employment whilst the Eastern Europeans can put patients lives at risk.
Originally Posted by Dedworth
... PRECISELY my point in #7 !
I guess a drawback of signing up to the EEC....
Sorry I am confused. These workers from 'Eastern Europe' are EU citizens thus have the same rights as any other EU citizen.
You appear to be trying to compare apples with oranges
Can't see why - read the Daily Mail article it's very simple, there's been previous postings on here
These EU Easterners can turn up with spurious qualifications and no or pidgin English therefore unable to communicate with patients / co-workers thus putting lives at risk.
Filipinos with far higher qualifications, nursing and language skills are subject to the vagaries of UKBA jobs shortage list and stringent English tests.
Would you be happy to wake up in an ICU with an illiterate Romanian scratching her head wondering what controlled drugs to pump into you ?
ok ... wots really worse than this... britain is donating more than 70 million pounds in the form of foreign aid to a south african country on the brink of starvation.. while at the same time stripping it of its most precious recource.. skilled nurses .
Not really, John.
We're talking here, about a basic lack of communication between key healthcare workers - notably doctors & nursing staff - and their patients. Regardless of Nationality! And therein lies the danger. Inevitably, medical standards throughout the world will continue to vary greatly according to the training and resources available. Nevertheless, in order to carry out his/her role effectively, a health professional ANYWHERE needs to be able to communicate on a level that the person receiving treatment fully understands. But whereas most - if not all - Filipino doctors and nurses are perfectly capable of fulfilling this fundamental requirement ... it seems the vast majority of their non-English speaking European counterparts are NOT!
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