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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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Serious questions about the UK’s relationship with the rest of European Union would be raised if Britons reject Europe’s proposed constitution, the EU’s foreign policy chief has said. Although Javier Solano said that it would not be “the end of the world” if the UK rejected the constitution, he warned BBC Radio 4’s Today programme… Read more »
Government plans to introduce 24-hour drinking will increase the £1.7bn alcohol-fuelled harm costs the NHS every year, a leading group of doctors has warned. The Royal College of Physicians claims that there is already an “epidemic” of binge drinking in the UK and says the plan “flies in the face of common sense”. The medical… Read more »
