EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT EU SERVICES DIRECTIVE VOTE, SOCIAL CARE, HEALTH CARE
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) has called for further changes to the European Union's (EU) proposed services directive, after the European Parliament voted for social care to be covered by the legislation. This would allow nursing agencies established for an (undefined) temporary period in a foreign EU member state - say Poland or Latvia - to provide nurses to children's or old people's homes in the UK. Furthermore, the RCN fears the legislation would also allow these institutions themselves to be registered in another EU member state with ...
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