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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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New Labour’s police funding brought about real results in cutting crime, but public perceptions didn’t improve. In a time of spending cuts and upheaval, it’s going to be very difficult for the coalition to do better.
The gap between perceptions of rising crime and the reality is only likely to increase, a former policing minister has warned.
