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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 Sasjkia Otto The Conservatives have regained another pre-1997 stronghold in Reading West with a 12% swing. Conservative Alok Sharma earned 43% of the vote in Reading West, 107th on the Tory target list, with a 6,004 vote majority. Labour’s Naz Sarkar won 31% with 14,519 votes, down 4,421 votes from 2005. Reading West was… Read more »
By Chris Bradley Labour have held their seat safe in Riverside as the Commons’ transport committee chairperson Louise Ellman was re-elected. The announcement came just after 5:00 BST that Ms Ellman had kept her seat for a fourth time with a 14,173 majority of votes (36.5%). Earlier in the night, Ms Ellman told politics.co.uk she… Read more »
