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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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A teacher forced to retire early as a result of a bullying headmistress has been awarded more than £86,000 in damages and legal costs. Margaret Menzies, 58, who now lives in New Zealand, went on sick leave from her post at Chalgrove Primary School in Barnet, north London in January 2001 with depression. She was… Read more »
Gordon Brown has made the case for greater trade with the USA in a speech to the CBI today. On the eve of president Bush’s state visit, the Chancellor has set out the benefits of expanding trade with the USA, arguing that this represents the EU’s best route to greater prosperity and that it could… Read more »
