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End to competence tests for EU nurses

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • September 7 2010

The constraints placed on the UK by EU law in relation to the employment of EU nationals, can be demonstrated by the recent decision of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to agree to the end of competency tests for workers from the European Union (EU) after being told it could be sued by the European Commission for breaching EU law on "the freedom of movement" for workers

Department of Health to take action on language testing for European Economic Area doctors

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • September 7 2010

The Government has published its Response to the House of Commons Health Committee report into the use of overseas doctors in providing out of hours services, (the response) which was commissioned following the death of David Gray, a patient of Dr Ubani from Germany who was working as an out of hours doctor, despite having previously failed a language test to work in this country