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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 »

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Frank Field is gathering support for his rebel amendment
Field amendment wins over 39 Labour MPs

A rebel motion challenging the government on its income tax changes has been signed by 39 Labour MPs. Former minister Frank Field is expected to table an amendment calling for compensation for those who are worse off as the result of the abolition of the 10p starter rate of income tax. According to his Westminster… Read more »

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Gordon Brown bounces back against David Cameron
Tories handed setback in latest poll

Labour has reversed a ten-point swing against the Conservatives in March, cutting the Tories’ lead to five points in a new poll published today. The Guardian/ICM poll sees the Conservatives slipping three points to 39 per cent, while Labour is up five points to 34 per cent. This all but reverses the ten-point swing seen… Read more »