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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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The recently appointed illegal migration minister has urged Conservative MPs to back the Rwanda bill in a crunch vote this evening, admitting that if it fails the scheme would be a “waste of money” Michael Tomlinson, appointed as illegal migration minister last Thursday after Robert Jenrick’s old post was split in two, confirmed on Sky… Read more »
Conservative “big beasts” are lining up behind Rishi Sunak ahead of a crunch vote this evening over his Rwanda bill, amid speculation that a series of party right factions could rebel. In his first major intervention since his resignation as defence secretary earlier this year, Ben Wallace warned rebels in an article for the Telegraph… Read more »
