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Should we obey this European rule?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The GMC can't stop europeans from working here - but the Employers are the actual arbiter.
If your GP practice/local hospital is employing a new doctor (or arranging a locum contract) they have the legal right to decide what the communication skills requirement is for that post.
If they predominantly serve a Polish community or a French School- fine -but I think in the vast majority of cases they will make the appropriate candidate selection and if inability to communicate with patients is a factor they will not contravene any 'laws' whatsoever.
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If your GP practice/local hospital is employing a new doctor (or arranging a locum contract) they have the legal right to decide what the communication skills requirement is for that post.
If they predominantly serve a Polish community or a French School- fine -but I think in the vast majority of cases they will make the appropriate candidate selection and if inability to communicate with patients is a factor they will not contravene any 'laws' whatsoever.
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Agreed. There have i believe been terrible cases of incompetent doctors coming in from abroad (as locums usually) and killing people.
I think the ultimate responsibility has to be the employer's. If someone here wants to employ a German doctor who can't speak english that's their business and can't be illegal. But if my hospital or GP puts a doctor in front of me I would hold them responsible for ensuring they are properly qualified, competent and can communicate with me.
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Agreed. There have i believe been terrible cases of incompetent doctors coming in from abroad (as locums usually) and killing people.
I think the ultimate responsibility has to be the employer's. If someone here wants to employ a German doctor who can't speak english that's their business and can't be illegal. But if my hospital or GP puts a doctor in front of me I would hold them responsible for ensuring they are properly qualified, competent and can communicate with me.
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"Foreign doctors whose English is so poor that they need interpreters are being allowed to operate on patients in Britain, the medical regulator has warned. "
It doesn't bother me one jot. If I was being operated on, the last thing on my mind would be to have a chinwag with the surgeon who was making me better.
It doesn't bother me one jot. If I was being operated on, the last thing on my mind would be to have a chinwag with the surgeon who was making me better.
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My dentist, an Indian lady, speaks better English than I do. I have more difficulty understanding her Scottish colleague sometimes.
Thing is, though, when I meet medical professionals whose spoken English is poor, I can usually understand them because I've spent years working with and alongside people whose first language isn't English. But my mum, I know, has real problems understanding her GP sometimes. He's a wonderful doctor with a lovely bedside manner, but people of Mum's generation just aren't used to all these 'foreign' accents.
Thing is, though, when I meet medical professionals whose spoken English is poor, I can usually understand them because I've spent years working with and alongside people whose first language isn't English. But my mum, I know, has real problems understanding her GP sometimes. He's a wonderful doctor with a lovely bedside manner, but people of Mum's generation just aren't used to all these 'foreign' accents.
Yes, absolutely essential. Some doctors-on-call services employ EU doctors on short-term contracts to cover weekends etc - absolutely vital that they can not only read but understand patients' notes etc. I have worked with medics whose accents were very strong so they were hard to understand, but they did have the right terminology in language which was correct when written down.
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