Constitutional Reform
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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By Liz Stephens Welsh MPs and members of the Welsh Assembly have been accused today of using taxpayer money to fund political parties, after details of their expenses were published. Political parties in Wales have been paid almost £500,000 from public funds over the past two years for office space for their assembly members and… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff New Speaker John Bercow has launched a major attempt to live up to the hype surrounding his election, by making a radical move to make parliament more transparent. Speaking in the Commons today, he announced he would act to make all three of his deputies elected, in much the same way he… Read more »
