Nurses from Eastern Europe put NHS patients in danger

[Terpe]

Dedworth, you are completely right to raise to this issue and you are completely right in all you have said.
My wife is not a nurse but she is connected to the care organisations. She has constantly been under scrutiny about her performance and especially her competency for communication in English. Yet, in the very same organisations EU citizens are NOT required to demonstrate any competency for communication in English. In fact many really struggle to know what to do.
I have many many stories from my wife that would horrify almost all members here.

I have written letters and sent many e-mails to my local MP, to the CEO of our Primary Care Trust, to the Director of Adult Social Care and to Andrew Lansley (Secretary of State for Health) to Paul Burstow (Minister of State for Care Services)
This has been on-going and I have NEVER received any satisfactory response.
ALWAYS the blame is put against EU regulations. Well I think this is just a lame excuse because no-one wants to take any risks in contravening EU regulations. Whilst at the same time allowing contraventions of human decency and common b****y sense.

Most of our elected government representatives have no idea what to do, and no motivation to find out.

If anyone is really interested to research, you may find that there is a big big difference between the rights of EU citizens in UK and the rights of UK citizens in UK. That is unforgivable in any sense of the word IMHO

I would strongly urge all to write and complain and seek answers why.
The response (if any) you will get will cause you to be amazed, surprised and eventually disappointed beyond belief.

Sorry for the rant, some things make my blood boil. This is one of them.
Especially when it leads to humiliation of my wife. (Notice I did not say discrimination!! but it's the same thing for us)

[Doc Alan]

Dedworth, you are completely right to raise to this issue and you are completely right in all you have said.


I have written letters and sent many e-mails to my local MP, to the CEO of our Primary Care Trust, to the Director of Adult Social Care and to Andrew Lansley (Secretary of State for Health) to Paul Burstow (Minister of State for Care Services)
This has been on-going and I have NEVER received any satisfactory response.
ALWAYS the blame is put against EU regulations.

Ded may be right, but it would be polite - and good communication skills - to recognise that I raised the issue over a year ago .
Doctors and nurses with more influence than me are doing their best to improve matters. The comment in the Daily Mail by a relatively unknown obstetrician / gynaecologist in Shanghai criticising Lord Winston is unhelpful !
As for your own attempts to obtain a satisfactory response, you have my sympathy, and admiration for trying .

[Dedworth]

Ded may be right, but it would be polite - and good communication skills - to recognise that I raised the issue over a year ago .
Doctors and nurses with more influence than me are doing their best to improve matters. The comment in the Daily Mail by a relatively unknown obstetrician / gynaecologist in Shanghai criticising Lord Winston is unhelpful !
As for your own attempts to obtain a satisfactory response, you have my sympathy, and admiration for trying .

Apologies - I'd not searched the archives and seen you'd raised it 12 months before but many topics have the habit of repeatedly re-appearing, we'd be here all night if a full archive search was a requirement before posting or not. I raised this on the basis of a recent statement made by Winston in the House of Lords and its subsequent report in the Mail, Telegraph, Express etc.

Is Doctor Mahady that unknown ? he claims to be one or link himself to former Examiners of the General Medical Council Professional and Linguistics Assessment Board

He's mentioned in Hansard after being removed from his consultant post which following a protest by 20 other consultants resulted in the Hospitals Medical Director being reduced to the ranks

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/c...lth-care-trust

Speaking English, Danish, French and German himself Dr Mahady seems fairly well qualified to comment on the subject of Eastern European health workers with a less than decent grasp of the English language