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"Recognition and assessment of professional qualifications when professionals move across borders is essential. I have voted for this report, which looks at the way the 2005 directive on professional qualifications has been implemented, because there is room to improve confidence in the recognition system whilst maintaining support for the principle of mutual recognition. There has been a lot of attention given to the way the directive has been implemented in the UK’s National Health Service, particularly as regards language skills for doctors. The NHS must be able to hire the doctors and other staff it needs to provide a quality service, and this often means that they must come from outside the UK. At the same time, doctors must, of course, be able to understand their patients, and there can be no exceptions to this rule.
Despite media reports, the directive does not prevent Member States from imposing language requirements on doctors – in fact, it states that they should have all the necessary language skills to do their job. Nevertheless, there is clearly scope to make the rules stronger. When the Commission comes to review this directive later this year, it must take Parliament’s report into account."@en1
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