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 British forces are likely to be among the last international forces to leave Afghanistan, Liam Fox has said. The defence secretary said Helmand province, where the bulk of British troops are stationed, was one of the most “difficult parts” of the country. As a result “the likelihood is that will be one… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Britain’s health secretary has entered into a war of words with Jamie Oliver over his healthy school meals agenda. Speaking to the British Medical Association (BMA), Andrew Lansley suggested an ‘interventionist’ approach was often counterproductive. “Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and… Read more »
