Our courses are taught by professionally qualified and experienced staff, working flexibly with students who may have constraints on their time, due to their working hours and shift patterns. Since 2015, EEO staff have provided group and individual tuition, in both face to face and online sessions.

Chinese Doctors

A group of 9 doctors from Ningxia Province in China attended a 12-week clinical placement at Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals from October 2019 to January 2020. To help them achieve the maximum benefit from their clinical placements, EEO provided medical and general English language sessions. Since 2020, we have provided two further medical English courses for doctors from the Ningxia Province – we have also enjoyed some very energetic games of table tennis!

Nurses and health care assistants

Since 2015, specialised tuition for international nurses has been provided at our local hospitals, both in Colchester and in Chelmsford. We have also run English courses for health care assistants wishing to obtain the IELTS* or OET** qualification in order to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (although these courses are now fewer in number due to changes to NMC registration requirements).

*International English Language Testing System
**Occupational English Test.

Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs)

In 2024 and 2025, EEO staff provided bespoke medical English courses for newly recruited international ODPS.

Individual English tuition

Following referrals from hospital managers at Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals, EEO has also provided 1:1 Medical English tuition for staff working in a range of professional roles; these have included not only nurses and health care assistants, but also doctors and physiotherapists. These classes have been delivered using a blended learning model of online and face to face sessions to fit in with participants’ shift patterns and personal commitments.