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Overseas doctors face English tests before starting work

By 2011-10-04T10:40:00

Lecture being given to classroom

Foreign doctors will be made to take language tests before starting work in the NHS, under new rules being introduced in the wake of a number of scandals involving overseas medical professionals.

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