Responding to recently announced proposals by the Department of Health and Social Care on provisional registration for overseas-qualified dentists, John Makin, head of the Dental Defence Union (DDU), said: “It’s important that the GDC makes the process of registration for colleagues who qualified overseas as smooth as possible while discharging its key duty, that of ensuring patient… Read more »
Doctors are being reminded to get help if a patient makes an inappropriate advance, now that new guidance by the regulator places more emphasis on reporting unacceptable sexual behaviour in the workplace. In a recent MDU survey on receiving gifts from patients around 15% of the 411 MDU members who responded had concerns about the reason for… Read more »
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Conservative leader Michael Howard has said that the Conservatives would end the closure of special educational needs (SEN) schools and a move away from the policy of inclusiveness. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 says that a child must be educated in a mainstream school unless it is “incompatible” with parents’ wishes or… Read more »
The Government has suffered a major defeat in its efforts to get the anti-terror bill through the House of Lords. Peers voted 249 to 119 to amend the bill so that all terror control orders are made by the courts, rather than ministers. The majority of 130 is one of the highest ever to have… Read more »
