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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The relationship between the UK and Syria reached its warmest point since the start of the war in Iraq today, with the visit of foreign secretary David Miliband to the country. Mr Miliband will hold talks with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad before continuing his trip to Israel, the West Bank and Lebanon. The visit follows… Read more »
The government will reboot its child protection system in response to the death of Baby P in Haringey. Ed Balls, children’s secretary, will later announce an overhaul of the Children’s Trust Boards (CTB) set up after the death of Victoria Climbie. Currently, only some local authorities have a CTB. Under the new plans they would… Read more »
