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The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has welcomed the introduction of a change to GDC processes aimed at speeding up the initial inquiries made to assess fitness to practise cases. After a successful pilot, which saw the time taken to assess cases in the scheme average 13 weeks, the GDC has announced it is rolling out the… Read more »
The GDC has published its first report looking at dental professionals who died while undergoing a fitness to practise investigation. It has sadly shown that there were 20 deaths of registrants between 2019 to 2022 of which between one and three were confirmed as by suicide. John Makin, head of the Dental Defence Union (DDU) welcomed… Read more »
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Around 20,000 trainee teachers have had to retake numeracy tests, according to figures released in a parliamentary answer. The figures also reveal the average number of attempts made to pass the exam has shot up by 16 per cent since 2001. “As the number of applicants being accepted on to teaching courses rises, we need… Read more »
Peter Mandelson, or to give him his new name, Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool, faces his first select committee grilling since returning from Brussels this week, with an appearance in front of the business and enterprise committee on Tuesday. On the one hand, he hasn’t been in the post long enough to have done… Read more »
