Nurses coming from Eastern Europe, especially those from countries like Romania and Bulgaria, apparently have what Lord Winston has pointed out as “limited communication even in their own language” --- surely a matter of concern when it comes to the quality of health service, given the fact that communication between the patients and the professionals is extremely important!

Voicing his views in the House of Lords, during the course of a debate on the different training standards for foreign health workers working in the NHS, Lord Winston said that nurses who are not able to converse in English are putting patients at risk.

According to Lord Winston, the well-known fertility expert, the ‘communication’ problem is so widespread across the NHS that it is having an adverse effect on a huge numbers of patients --- and it is all thanks to the EU laws!

What comes as a real surprise is that unelected and unrepresentative bureaucrats are seemingly not as worried about the risk that lack of proper communication spells for the patients as they are about the possibility that stress on communication ability of foreign staff may restrict the 'free movement of labour.'

Expressing a word of caution, Lord Winston said that the vital patient-professional communication could be lost “with this issue of nurses who can’t speak the English language and have been trained in a different way,” and added: “I hope we can make the strongest case possible to make sure we get proper communication between patient and carer”!