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Online news - 8 February 2010

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Guidance coming for PCTs on doctors' knowledge of English

Guidance will be issued to Primary Care Trusts to help them to assess whether their doctors' English is good enough the Department of Health has promised.

The assessment is recommended in a new departmental review of GP out of hours care - General Practice Out of Hours Services - by Dr David Colin-Thome, national clinical director for primary care and Professor Steve Field, chairman of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners.