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DDU welcomes GDC plans to extend fitness to practise pilot

The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has welcomed the extension of a GDC pilot aimed at speeding up the initial inquiries made to assess fitness to practise cases. The pilot, which was announced in September last year and was due to end in April, has now been extended until the end of October after ‘early positive signs’. Of… Read more »

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Majority of PCCs Supportive of Shooting, says BASC

BASC has published the results of its interactions with Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) following last week’s elections. In the run up to the poll, BASC wrote to each of the 40 candidates in England and Wales and set up a platform for members to contact their local candidates to find out where they stood… Read more »

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Lord Falconer launches guidance into interpretation of Human Rights Act
Human rights ‘as British as beer’

Human rights are “as British as bitter beer” but people have to understand them better, the lord chancellor has said. Lord Falconer said the idea that human rights were imposed from Europe was wrong saying they were “British to the core” and if anything, had been transferred to Europe. But a review into the Human… Read more »

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Lord Warner publishes data on NHS job cuts
900 NHS job cuts ‘regrettable’

A total of 900 NHS staff have lost their jobs in the last five months because of financial problems and reorganisations in healthcare trusts, new figures show. Ministers said just 167 of the 903 compulsory redundancies since May were among clinical staff, and although they were “regrettable”, said they represented only a tiny fraction of… Read more »