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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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Tense discussions between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union adjourned last night with no sign of a breakthrough The talks, which lasted six hours, will resume again today, aiming to end the nine-day dispute over London weighting allowances. Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier has accused union activists of prolonging the dispute, while the… Read more »
The United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday that Iran had met its weapons disclosure deadline. But questions remained. The IAEA had set October 31st as the deadline for Iran to declare it was not building nuclear weapons. The head of the IAEA, Mohammad el-Baradei, said Iran’s report, submitted October 23, appeared to… Read more »
