article_snippet: All foreign nurses, midwives and dentists will have to pass tough new English language checks before being allowed to treat patients in the UK.
article_snippet: NHS trusts will be required to check the language competency of all NHS trusts healthcare workers, before NHS trusts are given licence to practise in the UK.
article_snippet: Until now only nurses, midwives and dentists from outside the EU the EU were subject to any language competency tests.
article_snippet: All foreign nurses, midwives and dentists will be required to pass English language competency tests before treating patients in the UK after MPs voted to extend legislation introduced last year for all foreign doctors .
article_snippet: Currently the Nursing and Midwifery Council is only required to test the language skills of those nurses and midwives coming to work in the UK from outside the EU.
article_snippet: Those moving from member states are permitted to begin work without taking a language test.
article_snippet: Under the new powers if an applicant cannot provide evidence of an applicant language competency, The NMC
article_snippet: The NMC will be able to ask an applicant to take an internationally recognised test.
article_snippet: The language tests were to be introduced for the first time, for doctors arriving from the EU.
highlights_snippet: All healthcare workers from the EU will now have to undergo language test .
  
highlights_snippet: Previously only those from outside the EU the EU had to prove competency .
  
highlights_snippet: Marks first time those from the EU will have to take language competency tests .