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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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MDU advises doctors not to ignore inappropriate patient behaviour

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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MPs have voiced concern at the way the Post Office is financed
MPs critical of Post Office financing

MPs have claimed there is little transparency about the way the Post Office is financed by taxpayers’ money. The business and enterprise committee today published a report also warning that the independent review of the mail services and Postcomm must take full account of the effects of any reforms of mail services on the post… Read more »

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Livingstone, Johnson and Paddick seek the London mayoralty
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The Conservatives were the big winners across England and Wales in May 1st's local elections.