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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By Alex Stevenson Prince Charles will attend this year’s D-Day commemorations after a diplomatic intervention from the White House embarrassed Downing Street. No 10 had responded with raised eyebrows to Barack Obama’s offer to help Britain get the Queen an invite to 65th anniversary events in Bayeaux and Arromanches. The events will be attended by… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The upcoming election for Hampshire county council will have special significance in one Hayling Island household when a father and son go head-to-head in the race for the seat. According to a report in The News in Portsmouth, Paul Pritchard, 61, and his son Chris, 29, will battle it out as candidates… Read more »
