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Exactly: nurses who can’t speak English endanger patients

September 15, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

I’ve blogged about this problem here in Toronto.

Now someone far more respectable than I am has finally raised the issue in the UK — and like me, is being called “racist”:

Since the Mail revealed Lord Winston’s concerns last week, patients have told how they are being forced to use sign language because hospitals are employing foreign nurses who struggle to understand English.

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