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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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George Galloway has today been hit with further allegations of profiting under the United Nations oil-for-food programme in Iraq. The UN-backed Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) says 11 million barrels of oil were allocated directly in the Respect MP’s name by Saddam Hussein’s government. Mr Galloway rejected outright the allegations, which come just days after a… Read more »
Homeowners and shopkeepers would be able to use greater force to defend themselves against burglars under proposed new legislation launched today. Tory MP Anne McIntosh’s private members’ bill would amend current laws so that only people who have used “grossly disproportionate force” against intruders on their property would be liable for prosecution. It is the… Read more »
