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Labour Leader Ed Miliband has recently hardened the party’s stance on immigration before the general election as he insisted that all new immigrants to Britain should be able to speak English. According to Miliband, this rule is particularly imperative for doctors, nurses and paramedics working in the NHS because they need to be able to communicate properly with patients.
Miliband announced that the future Labour government would present new laws that would ensure that all health workers are able to speak English well enough to care for patients before they could start work. Miliband admitted that his party has been “too timid” in the past about insisting that newcomers learn English when they arrive in the UK. He stated that “it’s something we should expect from everyone who comes here and it’s especially important that people who work in public services in public-facing roles should be required to speak English.”
Addressing the audience at Pensby high school in Heswall, Merseyside, Miliband pointed out that the need to speak English is “nowhere … more true than in our NHS”, which has a significant proportion of nurses and particularly doctors who have qualified overseas. He highlighted that out of the total 267,150 doctors registered with the General Medical Council, 97,915 (36.6%) are foreign-trained, including 34,120 (41.2%) specialists. He clarified that “I will never demean or devalue their contribution to our country, but it is vital that people who come to fill those roles don’t just have the right medical skills but can communicate with those for whom they care.”
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