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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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Britain’s new European Commissioner Peter Mandelson has called for a line to be drawn under the long running spat between himself and supporters of Gordon Brown. Allies of the Chancellor still felt disgruntled that he had vested his support in Tony Blair to lead the Labour Party, Mr Mandelson told BBC One’s Breakfast with Frost…. Read more »
The Government is considering tough new anti-terrorism laws amid fears of an al Qaeda attack on Britain, Home Secretary David Blunkett has today announced. Mr Blunkett revealed that officials are looking at a range of tough new measures, which include plans for juryless anti-terror courts and allowing the use of evidence from phone taps in… Read more »
