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MEPs support Europe-wide alert mechanism for struck-off doctors
On 9 October, Labour MEPs voted to bring in a new Europe-wide alert mechanism for professionals, meaning doctors struck off elsewhere in the EU won't be able to practise in Britain.
The health care professionals covered by the updated directive on language checks include doctors, nurses, dentists, vets, midwives and pharmacists.
Catherine Stihler MEP said: "Labour MEPs have worked to ensure the current professional qualifications directive ensures authorities are able to apply language controls after the recognition of qualifications and employers will continue ascertaining the language requirements that are necessary.
"All European Union nations should alert the authorities about professionals no longer entitled to practice their profession."
The UK government's amending of the Medical Act in line with the professional qualifications directive will ensure greater safety for UK patients, and prevent fatal cases such as Dr Ubani, the German doctor who killed a patient in Cambridge.
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