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 »
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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The majority of immigrants to the UK from new EU member states have already returned home, a thinktank said on Wednesday. According to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), the rate of immigration to Britain from the most recent EU member states is slowing. Workers from Poland, who are now the largest foreign national… Read more »
The Competition Commission (CC) has recommended appointing an ombudsman in its final report on the UK grocery market. The report, which puts forward the regulator’s final recommendations, follows a five-year investigation with over 700 submissions. The big four grocers – Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons – have been accused of buying up land to prevent… Read more »
