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The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has raised concerns about the increased workload and accountability for dentists taking on the supervision of provisionally registered colleagues who qualified overseas. Responding to Department of Health and Social Care provisional registration for overseas-qualified dentists the DDU says it has profound misgivings about whether the system being proposed is workable and practical from a workforce and patient safety… Read more »
A commitment to tackle firearms licensing delays made during a meeting between BASC and Cumbria Police has been reinforced at a follow-up meeting. Cumbria Police revealed during the latest meeting with BASC that it is making rapid progress and has reduced its backlog of renewals by 57 per cent since the introduction of new resources in… Read more »
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The Tories have won a seat in Sunderland council from Labour, challenging Gordon Brown’s comfortable poll lead. Council by-elections yesterday saw a swing to the Conservatives across the country, although Labour only lost one seat. The Conservatives won Sunderland’s Washington East seat with a swing of 3.7 per cent from Labour. By-elections for Kent county… Read more »
She may have stopped short of telling Labour delegates to go back to the constituency and prepare for government, but Harriet Harman today did little to dampen election fever. Rumours of an autumn poll have dominated this week’s Labour party conference in Bournemouth, with only Gordon Brown remaining tight lipped on the subject. In her… Read more »