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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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Tony Blair will today host a summit at Downing Street to address gun crime. The prime minister and home secretary John Reid will meet with police and community leaders to discuss the recent shootings in London and across the UK. Although stressing that the shootings are “not a metaphor for the state of British society”,… Read more »
The rules banning phone-taps on MPs should be lifted, the interception of communications commissioner has argued. In his annual and final report into intelligence gathering, Sir Swinton Thomas has called for the end of the so-called Wilson Doctrine, in order that no person is seen as being “above the law”. In 1966 Harold Wilson established… Read more »
