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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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Welcome to politics.co.uk’s as-it-happens pages. Here, you can keep up to date with speeches, debates and major political events in real time. Just hit refresh on your browser to see the latest developments. This event is now over, but you can see how it happened below. 11:23 – Gordon Brown won’t be making his speech… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff ITV has announced it is to cut 600 jobs after revealing writedowns worth £2.7 billion, leading politicians to describe events as “a dark day in public service broadcasting”. The commercial broadcaster said the job cuts were part of a series of cost-saving schemes including the suspension of dividend payments to shareholders. ITV… Read more »
