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DDU highlights challenges in proposed changes to registration of overseas-qualified dentists

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 »

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Curran suspended from GMB

The leader of the GMB union has been suspended by the national executive in the latest stage of the long running dispute. Kevin Curran was elected by a wide majority through an all-postal ballot nearly two years ago. But the union’s ruling council has launched an investigation into allegations of vote rigging. Mr Curran vigorously… Read more »

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English urged to reclaim national identity

Former Home Secretary David Blunkett has called on the English to reclaim their sense of national identity. In a lecture to the Institute of Public Policy Research yesterday, Mr Blunkett, said the sense of “Englishness” had to be seized back from nationalist groups in Britain. He reflected on the way the Irish celebrate St Patrick’s… Read more »