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We hire a lot of medical workers from non-EU countries already. AFAIK EU qualified medical personnel are hugely outweighed by non-EU ones. The process seems fa
by cameronh90 6y ago
We hire a lot of medical workers from non-EU countries already. AFAIK EU qualified medical personnel are hugely outweighed by non-EU ones.
The process seems fairly simple. My girlfriend is a nurse from a non-EU country, and she did have to take an English exam before moving, and then a competency exam after a month of working here.
However, she described it essentially as a formality, that if you are a competent nurse who can speak English, it should not be an issue. It took a few hours.
It might be more of an issue for HCAs, porters, etc who seem to be much more frequently Eastern European. However given my mother became seriously unwell as a result of a miscommunication between an EU hospital worker who didn't speak adequate English and one of the doctors... well I can't help but feel a little bit of scrutiny on incoming healthcare workers isn't the worst thing ever.
The sanctions data is definitely a concern though.
- claudeganon 6y agoI think it’s funny that people expect this will translate to a better standard of care. Low wage foreign workers are just a consequence of what happens when politicians undermine public health services. They’ll (at best) just be replaced by low wage, undertrained domestic workers, just as liable to make the same mistakes. Railing at the symptoms of austerity politics does little to cure the disease.