Towns where one worker in two is foreign

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The picture above shows the shocking amount of foreign workers in London, with the highest number being in Newham, the East London borough which is to host the 2012 Olympics. That is 65,100 jobs out of 93,700 and yet 25,600 British-born people in the area are out of work.

Slough, Leicester, Luton, Reading, Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, Crawley and Elmbridge are areas outside London with the largest populations of foreign workers.

Hospital has staff from 70 countries as nurses who don't even understand 'nil by mouth'

Dr Ubani - foreign out-of-hours doctor that barley speaks English 

An NHS hospital has staff from a staggering 70 countries on its payroll.

The huge number of overseas nurses, cleaners and porters has forced health chiefs to send them on ten-week English courses because many do not understand basic medical phrases.

Among the terms some workers from countries such as Burma, the Philippines and Poland can't follow are 'nil by mouth', 'doing the rounds' and 'bleeping a doctor'.

They highlight the language problems throughout the Health Service, which critics say are putting patients' lives at risk.

The lessons follow several 'near-disaster' cases, including one where a meal was delivered to a patient because a member of staff did not understand that 'nil by mouth' meant the man could not eat or drink.

Although all doctors from outside the EU must pass an English language test set by the General Medical Council before they can practise, the same rules do not apply for other hospital workers.
Instead, they are usually assessed on their grasp of the language at interview.

The problem has become so acute at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals that foreign workers are being encouraged to attend ten-week, taxpayer-funded 'English For Speakers Of Other Languages' courses, which are run by a nearby college.

Research has found that up to a quarter of nurses  -  more than 60,000  -  working in London are foreign, with the largest number coming from the Philippines.

Hospitals in the capital that recruit a high number of overseas workers include University College Hospital, the Royal Free, and Guy's and St Thomas'.

Manchester Royal Infirmary also has a high proportion of foreign staff from countries including India, Ghana, Spain, Germany, Iceland and the Yemen.

Jacquie Pearce-Gervis, of the Oxford Radcliffe Patients' Forum, called last night for English lessons to be made compulsory rather than voluntary. She added:

'Patients and relatives have been calling for this for a long time. The language barrier can be a real issue. The most common problem is "nil by mouth".

There have been cases when porters have delivered a patient food despite the fact there is a clear sign on their bed saying "nil by mouth". Obviously this could have led to disaster but fortunately the patient has been intelligent enough to point out that they are not allowed the food.

I think it should be compulsory. There can often be problems with common slang terms used on

the ward.'
A member of staff at the trust, who did not wish to be named, said: 'It's a real problem here and the language lessons can only be a good thing.

We have so many foreign employees here and it's very worrying if they don't speak English.'

There have been increasing concerns over the language skills of overseas medical staff since the death of David Gray, who was unlawfully killed by a foreign out-of-hours doctor in 2008.

The 70-year-old died after Dr Daniel Ubani, 67, a German GP whose English was so poor that he had been rejected by other health authorities, gave him a massive overdose of painkillers.

It was later revealed that although Dr Ubani had already failed an English language test in Leeds, he was still allowed to sit a different trust's less-stringent test.

Last night, Mr Gray's relatives called on the Government to take a tougher stance on NHS staff who could not speak English.

His son Dr Stuart Gray, 49, a GP based in Belbroughton, West Midlands, said: 'It's an appalling state of affairs. It is paramount that all NHS staff should be able to speak English. Our father died at the hands of a doctor who had in fact taken an English test and failed it.

'But the GMC and the Government are unable to enforce any rules on doctors recruited from within the EU. As a result they are having to rely on Primary Care Trusts to enforce their own testing system which  -  as the tragedy with Dr Ubani demonstrates  -  isn't working.

'All NHS staff  -  be it doctors, nurses or other workers  -  must be able to speak English.'
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80 foreign students a day arriving with bogus visas

While our kids struggle to get a place at university, an estimated 80 foreign students a day are arriving with visas from bogus institutions; enough to fill the whole of Oxford University, which has 20,000 students, with 'thousands left over'.

Full story HERE

1 in 10 living in Britain are foreign nationals

The number of immigrants living in Britain has almost doubled in less than three decades, official figures show.

More than 10 per cent of the population - 6.7million - were born abroad, the Office for National Statistics has found.

The analysis shows that the count of those born abroad - now agreed to be the best figure for measuring the rate of immigration - is two million higher than it was just eight years ago.

And the figure is nearly double the 3.38million people born abroad who were recorded as living in Britain in 1981.

The scale of immigration over the past few years was set out in a breakdown by National Statistician Jil Matheson, the recently-appointed head of the Government's Office for National Statistics.

She said that there are 689,000 migrants from Eastern Europe in Britain, an increase of 522,000 since Poland and seven other Eastern European countries joined the EU in 2004.

But these make up only one in ten of the foreign-born population of the country, Miss Matheson found.

She also endorsed the ONS projections that say that the UK population will hit the politically sensitive 70million mark in 2029.

She added the recession is likely to have only a small impact on the record levels of immigration since 2001.

The ONS report found that Eastern Europeans have begun to emigrate as well as to arrive in Britain, and overall 20,000 more Eastern Europeans came to this country than left it in 2008.

Current research, Miss Matheson added, suggests that 'a short-term period of falling immigration can be expected, before immigration levels rise again to pre-recession levels'.

She concluded: 'The current recession is likely to have a small and temporary effect on net migration.'

Her findings run counter to assurances from Gordon Brown and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas that the new Home Office points-based immigration system will curb numbers coming into the country and the 70million population mark will never be reached.

Sir Andrew Green, of the Migrationwatch think-tank, said: 'This report confirms the massive impact of immigration on our population under the present Government.

'It must be brought under control, but so far Government policies are completely inadequate for the purpose.'

However, Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said: 'These population projections do not take into account the impact of future government policies or those Eastern Europeans who came here, contributed, and are now going home.

'Projections are uncertain. For instance in the 1960s they said our population would reach 76million by the year 2000, this was off target by 16million.'

He added: 'And let's be clear the category "foreign-born mothers" includes British people born overseas - such as children whose parents are in the armed forces or those who come to Britain at a very early age.'

Previous research counted the number of foreign passport holders, but with many being granted British citizenship counting those who are foreign born is now thought to give the most accurate figure.

The findings on the scale of immigration follow evidence that the arrival of large numbers of migrant workers has pushed down wages and living standards for low-paid workers.

A report last week by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation charity found that the poorest-paid working families have been getting poorer and suffering greater unemployment not since the onset of recession, but from 2004 onwards during a time of economic boom.

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NHS abused by immigrants

I was outraged to see an article today about the amount of foreign women in our maternity units.

Administrators at the Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London put up a map of the world and encouraged the women to place a dot on the country they are from, apparently to ‘celebrate ethnic diversity’.

Out of 243 women only 18 were British. The rest are from 72 different nations including Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Asia and Africa. And this is at just one hospital.

Almost every cot and incubator was occupied by a baby with a foreign mother and interpreters were on hand to make sure they understood the doctors.

Some of the women arrive straight from the airport with tags still attached to their luggage; many come as health tourists knowing our NHS will provide excellent care for babies born with profound illnesses needing lifetime treatment and medication.

The cost per day for each child? £1, 400

Many of these children have ailments such as sickle cell anaemia (almost unknown among North European’s, but is common in African and Mediterranean communities), HIV passed from the mother as well as deafness, blindness and devastating neurological problems which are common among ethnic minorities where marriages between cousins are the norm.

In London, 50 percent of babies are born to foreign mothers although in Newham and Brent that raises to 75% and 73%. In Chelsea the figure is 67%.

The next time you read of an expectant mother not able to find a hospital bed, or a child needing to travel miles for treatment, you’ll know why.