Heads of two royal colleges want urgent action over poor language skills and 'stifling effect' of working time directive
NHS patients are at risk because of European laws that govern how overseas doctors work in the UK, the heads of two royal colleges have said.
They
claimed "urgent action" was needed on the issue of EU doctors' language
skills and criticised the restriction on the number of hours a week
trainees can work for.
In a letter to
the Daily Telegraph, Professor Norman Williams, the president of the
Royal College of Surgeons, and Sir Richard Thompson, the president of
the Royal College of Physicians, wrote: "The language competency of
doctors from the EU working in Britain, and the stifling effect of the
European working time directive [EWTD] on the time that trainee doctors
have to learn on the job, need urgent action.
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