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Supervising provisionally registered dentists will increase workload and accountability, DDU says

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 »

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Cumbria Police on track to reduce the backlog

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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Adair Turner publishes his final pensions report today
Turner suggests pension age could rise to 69

The basic state pension should gradually become more generous and less means-tested, paid for by an increase in the retirement age up to 69, Adair Turner said today. Announcing the final report of his long-awaited pension commission, Lord Turner also recommended the creation of a national pensions saving scheme (NPSS), to “use the power of… Read more »

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British Gas faces strike action

British Gas engineers will take part in five 24-hour strikes in the coming weeks in a battle with the company over pension rights. It is estimated that up to 6,000 engineers will down tools on December 12th, 19th and 21st and January 6th and 9th. In addition, out-of-hours calls will not be handled from December… Read more »