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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 Conservative Party has continued its campaign to win over inner city voters with new pledges on rehabilitation for drug addicts. Both Iain Duncan Smith and Oliver Letwin are campaigning in Leeds to promote their policy ambitions for crime reduction through drug rehabilitation. At present there are around 2000 abstinence-based rehab places available for people… Read more »
Members of the European Parliament are set to vote on laws that would give airline passengers left stranded because of overbooking the right to compensation payouts. MEPs are set to pass a law that will require airline companies to pay compensation to passengers who are denied their booked seat because of overbooking or cancellations. At… Read more »
