Tests on foreign nurses scrapped:

Tests on foreign nurses scrapped: EU order means Britain must open NHS jobs to thousands from Eastern Europe

Thousands of foreign nurses will be allowed to work in Britain without any safety checks because EU rules demand that the tests are axed.

They will not need to sit rigorous competence exams before treating NHS patients. And they will no longer even be required to show they have looked after patients in the past three years.

Critics say the change will 'almost certainly' lead to lives being lost. The Nursing and Midwifery Council will stop administering the tests in the autumn after being told it could be sued by the European Commission for breaking EU law on 'freedom of movement' for workers from the Continent.

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We say:

It is a ridiculous situation that those from English speaking countries such as Australia, the US and so on, will have to take a test, but those from non-English speaking countries – like the Eastern Europeans – will not.

Since the scandal of the German doctor accidently killing a British patient you would hope the EU would put patient care ahead of their obsession of freedom of movement.

While freedom of movement might work for some unskilled jobs, it should not be applied for all professions, particularly ones where practices are significantly different from country to country.

UKIP is the only party with a proper policy on foreign workers, that would safe-guard the public and British job seekers.