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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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The world must take action on climate change or risk plunging into a major economic crisis, a landmark report warned today. Nicholas Stern’s 14-month review into the financial costs of global warming finds it could cost up to one per cent of the world’s output to stem the rise in greenhouse gases and stop the… Read more »
Britain’s radioactive waste will be buried underground but councils will not be forced into accepting it, the government announced yesterday. Environment secretary David Miliband said there would be a “participation and benefit package” for those local authorities that agreed to take waste in their areas, but stressed: “We are not seeking to impose radioactive waste… Read more »
