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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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The High Court of Northern Ireland has ruled that the suspension of three Ulster Unionist MPs from the party was invalid. David Burnside, Jeffrey Donaldson and the Reverend Martin Smyth had been seeking an injunction against the party leader’s, David Trimble’s, decision to suspend the MPs after they had resigned the party whip. The UUP… Read more »
The Foreign Affairs Select Committee today published its report into the compilation of the two dossiers presented to Parliament and the public in the run up to the war in Iraq. Reporting of the influences on the dossiers has caused a public dispute between the BBC and the Government, and has raised questions about the… Read more »
