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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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There is a “strong case” for harmonising the ages at which young people can drive, drink, vote and get married, David Cameron said today. The Conservative leader said there was “confusion” in age-related legislation which, combined with the absence of any cultural rite of passage in Britain, made it difficult for young people to know… Read more »
A radical shake-up of the system for providing medical expert witnesses in court has been announced today, to address fears that current witnesses are not reliable. Chief medical officer Liam Donaldson proposed that rather than individual legal teams contacting individual doctors to act as witnesses in family courts, as now, the system be organised and… Read more »