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Health Professions: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many complaints there were about to the standard of English of (a) GPs, (b) consultants and (c) other health care professionals in the NHS in each of the last 10 years.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
6 Nov 2024
Answer
11 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many complaints there were about to the standard of English of (a) GPs, (b) consultants and (c) other health care professionals in the NHS in each of the last 10 years.

  2. 6 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 11 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    No such data is collected. Many of the statutory health regulatory bodies have adopted the use of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) to assess workers for the health care setting. The overall IELTS English language test score of 7.0...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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