Crime Levels

Featured
MDU logo
DDU highlights challenges in proposed changes to registration of overseas-qualified dentists

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 »

Featured
MDU logo
MDU advises doctors not to ignore inappropriate patient behaviour

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 »

Latest articles

*Comment & Analysis
Politics.co.uk
Video: Put People First G20 demo

Watch protestors from Put People First take over the streets of London in the biggest UK demonstration since the Iraq War.

News
Jesse Jackson appeared before the home affairs committee
Jesse Jackson dismisses MPs

By Alex Stevenson Civil rights veteran Jesse Jackson spent the afternoon rejecting the views of MPs on the home affairs committee as he gave evidence on violent knife and gun crime. Revd Jackson, 67, described knives and guns as the “weapons of choice” in Britain and the US respectively. But in doing so he failed… Read more »