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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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Penny Mordaunt, the candidate who placed third amongst Conservative MPs last month, has this evening endorsed Liz Truss to succeed Boris Johnson. Speaking tonight at the latest Conservative Party hustings event in Exeter, Ms Mordaunt described the Foreign Secretary as the ‘hope candidate’ in the contest. Continuing Mordaunt said of Truss, ‘Her graft, her authenticity,… Read more »
Rishi Sunak has said he will cut the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 16% if he becomes prime minister. This would amount to a 20% tax reduction, what he describes as the “largest cut to income tax in 30 years”. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme this morning, the former… Read more »
