New society promotes Welsh for nurses.

Nurses in Wales have formed a new society to promote the Welsh language in their work. The chair of the new society, Eira Rowley, professional adviser to the Welsh National Board for Nursing, said with up to 80 per cent of patients in some areas speaking Welsh as their first language, it is important to speak Welsh wherever possible. Ms Rowley said some patients were penalised because they were not so familiar with English as their mother tongue.