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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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Nuclear power will make a “significant contribution” to providing Britain’s energy in the future, the trade and industry secretary has announced. Alistair Darling said the government’s energy review concluded that while some of the shortfall caused by old power stations going out of service can be covered by renewable energy, nuclear power would have to… Read more »
Ministers should stop promoting nuclear power as the solution to Britain’s energy needs and focus instead on getting cross-party support for a future strategy, MPs warn today. The trade and industry committee says Tony Blair’s decision to back nuclear power weeks before the publication of the official energy review tomorrow risks making the whole process… Read more »
