This publication gives guidance on teaching English to catering staff in hospitals. It details reasons why alternative forms of language education are unsuitable, and gives ideas on teaching the different aspects of English the staff will need to know. [SMD}
It is impossible to give an accurate account of the numbers of domestics from overseas at present employed in British hospitals, but the percentage is certainly high. Hospitals have great difficulties in recruiting locally, and have to look elsewhere, often drawing people directly from overseas, for example from Southern Europe, ...
Many hospital laundries employ workers from overseas and for them the most crucial element in their general ability to work well and to live happily in Britain is their knowledge of the English language. This course aims: to teach the English the learner needs for his immediate job, and to ...