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DDU highlights challenges in proposed changes to registration of overseas-qualified dentists

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 »

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MDU advises doctors not to ignore inappropriate patient behaviour

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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Cameron takes on Miliband to win CBI support
Analysis: Optimism and pessimism at the CBI

The political climate is not well-suited for either David Cameron or Ed Miliband to win over British businesses. Yet one’s willingness to lay out and defend his economic plans may have trumped the warnings of the other. By Alex Stevenson This was never going to be good timing for the government. Just one week has… Read more »