Rejected petition Nurses to be able to converse in English

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In todays press it quotes that many foreign imported nurses are unable to converse in English. Not only is this inneficient but can cause deaths from a wrongly prescribed injection.

The petition is to halt any further recruitment of NHS nurses who are unable to converse in English. Those already in employment should be downgraded so they pose no risk to the patient.

This petition was rejected

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Date submitted 10 September 2011
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