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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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By politics.co.uk staff Rail customer watchdog Passenger Focus has criticised the above-inflation raise fare increases planned for 2009. Regulated fare price hikes, which include annual season tickets, will increase by an average of six per cent when they come into effect from Friday. This is well above the the current level of inflation and the… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson The Liberal Democrats will meet with senior civil servants to discuss the possibility of a hung parliament before the next general election, a report claims. The Guardian newspaper cites a senior Whitehall official revealing the civil service will be “dusting down the tomes” to assess the mechanics of the centrist Lib Dems’… Read more »
