More Proof Many Foreign Workers are not High quality

More EU Meddling Poses New Health Threat to British People


Mon, 23/08/2010 - 16:16

Not content with interfering with doctors’ traditional working hours and the problems that those rules bring, the European Union has also forced the British Nursing and Midwifery Council (NWC) to stop competency checks on foreign nurses because they are “discriminatory.”





The bizarre ruling, which has forced the NWC to halt all its checks on incoming nurses, was made after it became apparent that too few nurses were able to pass the stringent course to which British nurses are subjected.



According to NWC figures, over the past five years, only 270 of the more than 40,000 nurses from the European Union (including former Soviet Bloc countries such as Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia) who have applied to work in Britain, have been able to complete the stringent qualification tests.



The NWC always insisted that nurses must have worked at least 450 hours in the last three years or go on a refresher course to qualify to work in Britain.



The EU however recently informed the NWC that it was going to sue the nursing standards body for violating the EU’s freedom of movement regulations by its insistence on that rule.



The tests have now been stopped and the rule which demanded a minimum working time experience has also been dropped.



Ironically, British nurses are still subject to these very same rules from which the EU nurses are now exempt, a fact which dramatically underlines the bizarre nature of the EU superstate.



A study released in April this year showed that EU rules on doctors' working hours, the European Working Time Directive (EWTD), had seen hospital sick rates more than double.



Under the rules, doctors have been limited in terms of how long they can work which, in turn, has forced consultants to spend less time on the wards and provide less support to junior doctors.



Dr Hugh McIntyre, from the Conquest Hospital in East Sussex, who led the April 2010 study, was quoted as saying that the “changes in working practice necessary to comply with the EWTD were associated with, and may have contributed to, a detrimental effect on the welfare of doctors in training.”



Dr Andrew Goddard, director of the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) medical workforce unit, said in an article of his association’s journal that research “carried out by the RCP supports these findings such as high sickness and vacancies levels across England and Wales.



“We are concerned that this has significant implications for patient safety and the quality of medical training in the UK.”


You can just imagine how great the Philipino Nurses they want to bring into Austria will be. No Competency checks, poorer quality workers and 100,000 or more of them for Austria. ! Just Remember they are better than Austrian Kids of course !