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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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Chancellor Gordon Brown has described the fight against poverty as “the greatest moral crusade of our times”. Speaking at the Christian Aid rally in Edinburgh on Saturday, he demanded further debt relief and aid for the world’s poorest nations. His words came as 200,000 people marched through the Scottish capital ahead of next week’s G8… Read more »
Live 8 organisers have issued a further plea to the world’s leaders to “be great” after some of the biggest names in music took to stages across the globe on Saturday to call for an end to African poverty. Over a million people attended the anti-poverty concerts in ten cities, including London, Philadelphia, Paris, Berlin,… Read more »
