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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 Alex Stevenson Red-faced Labour whips will not be looking forward to tonight’s parliamentary party meeting after an attempted stunt to defeat the government in the Commons backfired last week. Angry opposition MPs are expected to demand an explanation as to why they were forced to stay in parliament later than usual on Thursday for… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff David Cameron has tasked a former Thatcher minister with reassessing the government’s relationship with small and medium-sized businesses, acknowledging “there is so much more we need to do”. David Young, who served as Margaret Thatcher’s trade and industry secretary from 1987 to 1989, will deliver a “brutally honest” report on successive government’s… Read more »
