Regulators will be able to ban doctors, nurses and phamacists from practising if they fail english language tests.
Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and social care workers who cannot speak proper English will be struck off by regulators.
Health regulators covering 1.4 million staff will be given the power to discipline or ban foreign workers who have a poor grasp of English.
Under the EU freedom of movement requirements, tens of thousands of doctors, nurses and other health staff can come to Britain and work without any formal NHS training.
MPs and peers have warned that the system has compromised patient safety, with particular concern about the use of foreign doctors.
In one notorious case, pensioner David Gray died after out-of-hours locum Dr Daniel Ubani gave him up to 20 times the recommended amount of diamorphine to treat pain in his kidneys
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