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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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The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged Britons to grow up and stop the abuse of childhood. In his Citizen Organising Foundation lecture at Queen Mary, London University, Dr Rowan Williams said Britain was in danger of becoming a society of infantilism, with adults “abusing” their own children. “Childhood is most positively valued and fostered when… Read more »
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy will spend Tuesday evening at home with his wife Sarah and their newborn son, after they left hospital this afternoon. Donald James Kennedy weighed six pounds and nine ounces when he arrived at 0014 BST at St Thomas’ hospital in London. The trio appeared outside the hospital this afternoon, speaking… Read more »
