GMC says more support needed for overseas doctors in UK

16 September 2011 Last updated at 01:16

“Being a doctor in the UK requires much more that just clinical expertise. It is also important to have highly developed communications skills, knowledge of UK medical ethics and culture, and an understanding of how the NHS works.

 Culture, medical standards and language are all issues
 
The General Medical Council says some overseas doctors come to the NHS with “little or no preparation” for working in the UK.

It says those trained under different cultural and professional standards need more support.

The welfare reform bill will affect millions of lives at their most vulnerable point

Comment: Govt’s welfare reform bill trick stinks of injustice

Kaliya Franklin is an experienced disability rights writer, blogger, campaigner and founder of The Broken of Britain a non partisan campaign against the welfare cuts.

   

 

The welfare reform bill will affect millions of lives at their most vulnerable point – isn’t that worth proper scrutiny?

By Kaliya Franklin

The government is guilty of attempting to suppress welfare reform bill opposition in the Lords.

The welfare reform bill debate held in the House of Lords on Tuesday was in complete contrast to the bill’s passage through the Commons – constructive, eloquent, well attended and informed. Over 50 peers were scheduled to speak; the interest and strict time limits reflecting the levels of concerns across the House. Even those Lords who in principle fully support the bill had serious questions they wanted answered before the bill was passed.

Some of the patients were allegedly locked in cupboards, threatened and humiliated as they suffered physical and verbal abuse

Two members of staff at care home sacked after ‘locking mentally ill patients in cupboards’

  • But carers will not be prosecuted after CPS claims ‘insufficient evidence’
 

By Rick Dewsbury

Last updated at 8:06 PM on 15th September 2011

 

Carers who allegedly abused severely handicapped patients at an NHS centre will not be prosecuted, police said today.

Some of the patients were allegedly locked in cupboards, threatened and humiliated as they suffered physical and verbal abuse at the hands of carers.