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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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Defence secretary John Hutton has said UK forces will leave Iraq by the end of 2009. Speaking at a joint meeting of the Commons’ defence and foreign affairs committees, Mr Hutton said British forces would be able to withdraw from Basra before the next election. He pointed out the security situation in the south of… Read more »
Israeli and Arab representatives meeting in Britain last week have signalled their growing enthusiasm for the Arab League’s peace initiative. Former Israeli government officials met with the former Palestinian national security advisor Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal and others to discuss how to activate the stalled peace plan in Oxfordshire last week. Its ‘land for peace’… Read more »
