As per recent reports, it has been warned by health chiefs yesterday that threat will still be looming over patients regardless of novels strategies being employed by authorities for the sake of testing English linguistic skills of overseas doctors.

The new directives issued by the European Union, all medics under EU will be open for registration in the United Kingdom without going through any elementary English test.

Language assessment will only be permitted once the qualifications and relevant skills of the doctor have been approved by regulators of the concerned profession, the General Medical Council.

Along the lines of the EU directive, English examinations should be only applicable in case there are some concerns of definite sorts in relation to the individual doctors.

Though GMC solicits blanket tests of linguistic proficiency related to English as a foreign language at the time of registration, it is not applicable once the doctor has gone through the process of acceptance.

While expressing his opinion in this regard, the Chief Executive of GMC, Niall Dickson shared that the proposed amendments in terms of linguistic needs for doctors coming from overseas will most probably result in increasing grave concerns for the care and general well being of patients. However, he held the opinion that the concerned officials will certainly go through the detail clearly and cautiously, though their major point of view is that the ultimate directive must be focused on providing superior guarantees with the intent of safeguarding patients.

Ever since 2008, the time when David Gray died in Cambridgeshire, the GMC has gone extremely severe in terms of seeking stronger and stricter language testing approach.

David Gray died because of negligence on part of a German doctor Daniel Ubani who gave him 10 times the recommended dosage of diamorphine.

Later during an inquest, Dr. Ubani admitted that he was exhausted as he had just a couple of hours sleep ahead of starting his working shift in the United Kingdom. But more importantly, he admitted that he confused regarding the difference between medicines used here (in UK) and in Germany, where he was trained.