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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 Conservative government would take drastic action against disruptive pupils, according to party leader Michael Howard. Launching the party’s school discipline policy, Mr Howard promised that he would give head teachers control over the expulsion of troublesome pupils and create special ‘Turnaround Schools’ for excluded pupils – with a return to mainstream education only possible… Read more »
2005 will be the last year for star ratings of NHS services, if a plan by the Healthcare Commission is approved. The Healthcare Commission is an independent inspectorate body responsible for health services in England and Wales and provides an annual rating of all public sector health care services. Doctors’ groups have welcomed the announcement… Read more »
