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The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has welcomed the extension of a GDC pilot aimed at speeding up the initial inquiries made to assess fitness to practise cases. The pilot, which was announced in September last year and was due to end in April, has now been extended until the end of October after ‘early positive signs’. Of… Read more »
BASC has published the results of its interactions with Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) following last week’s elections. In the run up to the poll, BASC wrote to each of the 40 candidates in England and Wales and set up a platform for members to contact their local candidates to find out where they stood… Read more »
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Plans to create electronic patient records across the NHS were “unachievable” and “unrealistic”, a National Audit Office (NAO) report has concluded. The national programme for IT in the NHS is proving to be an “enormous challenge”, the report notes, but says its original goals remain feasible and that progress is being made. When the scheme… Read more »
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been accused of “hypocrisy” over its treatment of international cluster bomb agreements. Landmine Action director Simon Conway made the claim days before a major conference in Dublin, when world leaders will finalise the text of an international treaty to ban the use and stockpiling of cluster munitions. During the… Read more »
