2006-11-14 06:36:08 · 12 answers · asked by ? 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
If you are British you dont need to speak any other language than English. The NHS is for the British people and paid for by British peoples taxes. Therefore if you are entitled to use the NHS you should be able to read and speak English. If you cant do this then hard luck and go back home where your language is spoken.
2006-11-14 06:46:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably yes. This is a country with one official language - English.
Having said that, NHS staff time may well have been wasted in helping patients fill out forms they don't understand because of their lack of english, which distracts the staff from their primary role of providing healthcare, and may put lives at risk.
So it's not as clear cut and ridiculous as it first seems!
2006-11-14 06:48:55 · answer #2 · answered by Robert H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely... the money should be spent on cleaning the hospitals properly and a better spread of drugs.
If you go to other countries there is little or no chance of seeing a document in English, although I admit there is mot likeliehood of the staff speaking some english !
2006-11-14 06:41:24 · answer #3 · answered by Robert W 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Drugs are expensive, the cost of translating the forms (this would be a one of cost) wouldn't even begin to cover the deficit (a £300 million overspend each year for the last 5 yrs)
Your question assumes that people who's first language is English can actual read. My best friend is a doctor (shes Belgian, English is her third language) she was tell me its commonly native English speakers who can't read the forms. By law she can't fill them in so she has to read it to them and get them to put a x for their signature.
2006-11-14 07:58:51 · answer #4 · answered by Bella 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If people choose to come and live in this country, they could have the courtesy to learn our language and they should be able to manage basic forms in English.
The money should go on essentials and we should not have to see our hospitals, our wards and our medical facilities being closed as they are around our way.
2006-11-14 06:50:51 · answer #5 · answered by WISE OWL 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Or in teaching moronic, one-language-speaking Americans, another language.
You're just so freking ridiculous when you're in a foreign country demanding service, in English. You still think the world exists to serve you.
Pendejos.
2006-11-14 06:51:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
certainly modern drugs is the alternative that has substitute into mainstream which subverts the actual drugs... Hipocrates reported permit drugs be your foodstuff and foodstuff your drugs.... it is the genuine way which they have became into merely an option with the aid of fact they could't get wealthy with it
2016-10-17 06:45:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the money meant for buying land cannever be used on constructions.use economics tactice which is alternative forgone,make the apporpriate step before another.excessive money can be spent on learning languages .you can even build your castle in the air if money is in excess.
2006-11-14 06:51:45 · answer #8 · answered by sainfa 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell yeah, and get rid of some of the managers too - Get a few more doctors and nurses in!
2006-11-14 06:39:18 · answer #9 · answered by fr3aky_lb 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I AGREE 100 PER CENT WITH YOU..........I THOUGHT THE NHS WAS FOR THE BRITISH PEOPLE.......THIS COUNTRY IS A JOKE NOW
2006-11-14 06:40:06 · answer #10 · answered by michael b 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋