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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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David Cameron’s campaign for the Tory leadership received a major boost this weekend with an increase in support both in parliament and among grassroots members of the party. In a letter to today’s Daily Telegraph, ten Tory MPs have said they will be backing the shadow education secretary, taking his parliamentary support to at least… Read more »
Companies who plague consumers with nuisance silent calls could face fines of up to £50,000, trade and industry secretary Alan Johnson announced today. It is part of the government’s efforts to halt the exorbitant increase in such phone calls, which occur when calls generated by computer are automatically ended if there are not enough operators… Read more »
