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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 NHS suspensions procedure is costing both individuals and taxpayers too much, according an influential committee of MPs. A new report from the Public Accounts Select Committee argues that too many suspensions of NHS staff end up dragging on for unacceptably long periods of time, which is both to the detriment of the individual and… Read more »
The Prime Minister has called on US President George Bush to “reach out’ to European leaders still at loggerheads over the rightfulness of the 2003 Iraq war. And he urged European leaders to reciprocate, saying neither Europe nor the US ought to be “arrogant” about the other. Mr Blair defended the president and US foreign… Read more »
