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The GDC has published its first report looking at dental professionals who died while undergoing a fitness to practise investigation. It has sadly shown that there were 20 deaths of registrants between 2019 to 2022 of which between one and three were confirmed as by suicide. John Makin, head of the Dental Defence Union (DDU) welcomed… Read more »

Dental professionals are being warned by the Dental Defence Union (DDU) that the application of tooth jewellery poses an ethical dilemma. The DDU has published a fictional dilemma, based on real cases notified by members, in which a dentist was asked by a patient for his teeth to be made to resemble fangs. The patient was… Read more »
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The Conservative Party has pledged to amend the Equality Act to stop people “misinterpreting” current rules around gender and biological sex. The party said that reforming the law, which states that an individual must not be discriminated against on the basis of their sex, would clear up “confusion” among public bodies and institutions. Under the… Read more »

A Labour frontbencher has said that Labour must be “fit for the future” as the row over whether Diane Abbott will stand as a party candidate deepened on Friday. Peter Kyle, the shadow science secretary, said that Abbott “was a trailblazer” and praised her achievements “in the past”. But asked whether the veteran MP should… Read more »









