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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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One of the foreign terror suspects held without charge in the has been freed. The man, known only as C, has been in prison since December 2001 under the Government’s anti-terrorist legislation. A statement from the Home Office is expected shortly. Egyptian-born C was among a group of foreign nationals being held in the UK… Read more »
Worldwide temperature rises over the next few decades are “virtually unavoidable”, the Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett has said. Speaking at the opening of an international science conference in Exeter on global warming, Ms Beckett said that with these temperature rises “significant impacts” are likely to occur. And she urged the world to join together in… Read more »
