Almost half of EU doctors seeking work in UK failed to prove English skills

Almost half of EU doctors seeking work in UK failed to prove English skills General Medical Council says 45% of those who applied in the past year did not give evidence of their language skills and were refused a licence to practise

Nearly half of all EU doctors who sought work in the UK in the past year were turned away because they failed to prove their English was good enough, the medical regulator has revealed.

In all, 779 doctors – 45% of those who applied – did not give evidence of their language skills to the General Medical Council (GMC), and were therefore refused a licence to practice, between 25 June 2014 and 6 July this year.

The fact that we can now check on doctors coming to the UK from elsewhere in Europe is proving effective

If you can’t communicate with your patients, you can’t function as a doctor Continue reading... The Guardian