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The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has welcomed the introduction of a change to GDC processes aimed at speeding up the initial inquiries made to assess fitness to practise cases. After a successful pilot, which saw the time taken to assess cases in the scheme average 13 weeks, the GDC has announced it is rolling out the… Read more »
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 »
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Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has this morning insisted he is “confident” that flights will be taking off to Rwanda before the next election. It comes after home secretary James Cleverly has arrived in Rwanda to sign a new treaty with the country. He will meet his counterpart, Vincent Biruta, to sign the treaty and discuss key next… Read more »
A Conservative MP has suggested introducing Nigel Farage to the House of Lords. Jonathan Gullis, the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North and member of the New Conservatives, told GB News that the former UKIP leader would be an “asset across the Blue and the Red Wall”. “I’d love to see it, personally”, Gullis said when the… Read more »
