NHS has that policy, so it's almost certainly legal.
They do it to minimise clinical risk and insure patient confidentiallity etc etc.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 12:43, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

True
But they do also welcome other languages, when I worked for the NHS I was always getting spammed with emails saying "Ward X needs someone who can speak Urdu/Cantonese/Esperanto/Geordie".
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 12:46, Reply)

Patients hardly count haha

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 12:48, Reply)

My sister works in Tenerife at a hotel and she is the only native English speaker there.
They asked her to speak to some Scottish folk who were staying as they couldn't understand them.

Neither could she.
( girlinthehole, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 12:48, Reply)

Hahaha
That'll teach the Scottish to talk properly.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 9 Sep 2010, 12:55, Reply)

Screw you all

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:01, Reply)

No speako escosse.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:03, Reply)

No speako ignoramus

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:04, Reply)

Oh, don't put me on ignore.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:06, Reply)

Don't put me on ANGRY!

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:07, Reply)

*soothingly pats POD on head*
There there POD I know the scots have a lot to offer.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:08, Reply)

Awa an no haver shite ye muckle hoors!

( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:11, Reply)

I got that OK.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:12, Reply)

Exactly
It's not difficult.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:13, Reply)