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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 politics.co.uk staff The government has banned the advertising of adult entertainment jobs in Job Centres. Jobcentre Plus will implement an immediate ban to certain jobs and ministers will push through legislation to enshrine the commitment on the statute book. “It’s absolutely wrong that the government advertises jobs that could support the exploitation of people,”… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Beleaguered airline British Airways negotiators are returning to the negotiating table today for the latest round of talks with the Unite union. After 22 days of industrial action by BA cabin crew the dispute over cost-cutting remains unresolved. Last month Unite members voted to reject a BA settlement, which would have seen… Read more »
