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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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Baroness Thatcher has returned home after spending two weeks in hospital for a broken left arm.
Thatcher returns home

By Liz Stephens Baroness Thatcher has returned home after spending two weeks in hospital for a broken left arm. The ex-prime minister, 83, had a pin inserted in her arm and spent two weeks recovering in London’s Chelsea and Westminster hospital before being discharged today. Waving, with her right arm, to reporters and well wishers… Read more »

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No new spending plans before election says Mandelson
‘No new spending plans before election’

By Liz Stephens There will be no new spending plans set out by the government before the next general election, Lord Mandelson suggested today. In a move that seems to tie the chancellor’s hands over spending, the business secretary said: “The spending period currently operating in government stretches beyond the next election and therefore it… Read more »