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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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Mr Prentis: 'Trident is criminal waste of money'
Brown urged to scrap Trident

By Alice Cannet Billion of pounds could be saved by scrapping Trident and ID cards, the general secretary of Unison will declare today. Dave Prentis will speak at Unison’s political conference in Manchester where he is expected to reject the government’s nuclear submarines as “criminal waste”. “Trident costs £1.5 billion a year to run and… Read more »

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LDA budget to be slashed by Brown

The prime minister is set to slash £21 million from Boris Johnson’s development budget to fund the social housing programmes announced in his manifesto, it has been revealed. The government plans to take money out of the country’s nine regional development agencies to fund the housing programmes announced in Building Britain’s Future on Monday. The… Read more »