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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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Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain condemns Belfast violence
‘Dissident republicans’ blamed for Belfast violence

Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain has blamed “dissident republicans” for another spate of firebomb attacks in Belfast last night. He said the violence was an attempt to derail the St Andrews agreement, which last month set out a timetable for restoring power-sharing government in the province. “They will not be allowed to succeed. The whole… Read more »

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Tony Blair says he will not rule out inquiry into Iraq war
Blair ‘won’t rule out Iraq inquiry’

Tony Blair has said the government “certainly don’t rule out an inquiry” into the Iraq war but stressed now was not the right time. MPs yesterday voted to reject a motion by the Scottish and Welsh nationalists to launch a select committee investigation into the government’s conduct in the war and its aftermath. In the… Read more »