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SPANISH nurses are being snapped up by the NHS despite not speaking sufficient English.
NHS trusts are ignoring the language barrier to lure nurses from Spain and Portugal with the promise that their salaries will be doubled for doing a third less work.
An increase in the number of recruitment fairs held in Spain and Portugal has lead to nurses being employed with low or non-existent levels of English.
Critics claim the ‘inevitable language barrier’ between staff and patients could have ‘catastrophic consequences’ and will ‘put patients at risk’.
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2014/12/02/nhs-employ-spanish-nurses-with-poor-english/
NHS trusts are ignoring the language barrier to lure nurses from Spain and Portugal with the promise that their salaries will be doubled for doing a third less work.
An increase in the number of recruitment fairs held in Spain and Portugal has lead to nurses being employed with low or non-existent levels of English.
Critics claim the ‘inevitable language barrier’ between staff and patients could have ‘catastrophic consequences’ and will ‘put patients at risk’.
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2014/12/02/nhs-employ-spanish-nurses-with-poor-english/