<div class="standfirst"><p>'Fertility expert and television presenter 
Lord Robert Winston has courted controversy by warning about the 
potential risks to healthcare posed by nurses with poor command of 
English.</p></div>
<p>In the House of Lords lat week, he pointed to particular problems with nurses coming from some Eastern European countries.</p><p>“Communication between the patient and the professional is of vital importance,” Lord Winston told peers.</p>
<p>“We run the <a style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent;" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://www.nursingtimes.net/peer-issues-warning-over-language-skills-of-eastern-bloc-nurses/5034772.article#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow"><span id="itxthook0w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">risk</span></a>
 of losing it with this issue of nurses who can’t speak the English 
language and have been trained in a different way. I’m particularly 
concerned about nurses coming from the east bloc of Europe. For example:
 Romania and Bulgaria.”'</p>Full story: <a href="http://www.nursingtimes.net/peer-issues-warning-over-language-skills-of-eastern-bloc-nurses/5034772.article">http://www.nursingtimes.net/peer-issues-warning-over-language-skills-of-eastern-bloc-nurses/5034772.article</a><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Dr. Gareth Price<br>Visiting Assistant Professor<br>Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies<br>316 Languages Building, Box 90259 <br>Duke University <br>Durham, NC 27708-0259<br>USA<br><br><br><br><br>