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The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has raised concerns about the increased workload and accountability for dentists taking on the supervision of provisionally registered colleagues who qualified overseas. Responding to Department of Health and Social Care provisional registration for overseas-qualified dentists the DDU says it has profound misgivings about whether the system being proposed is workable and practical from a workforce and patient safety… Read more »
A commitment to tackle firearms licensing delays made during a meeting between BASC and Cumbria Police has been reinforced at a follow-up meeting. Cumbria Police revealed during the latest meeting with BASC that it is making rapid progress and has reduced its backlog of renewals by 57 per cent since the introduction of new resources in… Read more »
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The Government and leading players in Northern Ireland enter make or break talks today that will determine whether devolution is restored in the province this side of the next general election. London and Dublin are pressing for signs from Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party over their willingness to strike a new power-sharing deal…. Read more »
Labour is failing to win the hearts and minds of British Muslims, an ICM poll for The Guardian has found. Most Muslims said they were unconvinced by Tony Blair’s assurances that the war on terror was not targeted at Islam. The poll found Liberal Democrats were the party most likely to take up the slack… Read more »