Human Rights
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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Gordon Brown may be about to back down on efforts to secure 42-day detention for terrorist suspects. Reports are circulating that the government is unwilling to use the Parliament Act to force the bill past the Lords, who are sure to vote against it. Without the use of the Parliament Act to overrule the Lords,… Read more »
A European human rights watchdog has criticised the way the government treats those detained without charge. The Council of Europe’s committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment publishes its report a week before parliament reconvenes, when it will push through measures to increase pre-charge detention from 28 to 42… Read more »
