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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 number of illegal immigrants in Britain could be 300,000 higher than the most recent government estimates, according to Migrationwatch UK. In June, home office figures put the number at between 310,000 and 570,000, but the right-wing lobby group believes that figure could be as high as 870,000. Migrationwatch said the official figures do not… Read more »
British Muslims live in constant fear of police harassment, arrest and possible “execution”, a radical Islamic political party has claimed. Dr Imran Waheed, UK spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir, told a gathering of about 1,000 party delegates at a conference yesterday that the Muslim community in Britain was being held responsible for the actions of the… Read more »
