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The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has raised concerns about the increased workload and accountability for dentists taking on the supervision of provisionally registered colleagues who qualified overseas. Responding to Department of Health and Social Care provisional registration for overseas-qualified dentists the DDU says it has profound misgivings about whether the system being proposed is workable and practical from a workforce and patient safety… Read more »
A commitment to tackle firearms licensing delays made during a meeting between BASC and Cumbria Police has been reinforced at a follow-up meeting. Cumbria Police revealed during the latest meeting with BASC that it is making rapid progress and has reduced its backlog of renewals by 57 per cent since the introduction of new resources in… Read more »
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The chancellor Jeremy Hunt has this morning announced that the government’s proposed financial statement for 31 October has been moved back 2 weeks till 17 November. With the pound recovering in the foreign exchange markets and the cost of long term government gilts falling, the government now has greater breathing space with the financial markets… Read more »
In a press conference following the change to the cabinet seen earlier today, Liz Truss justified her decisions but admitted “this is difficult”. She said that she was “sad” to lose Kwasi Kwarteng as he is a “dear friend”, but assured that Jeremy Hunt would do a good job as Chancellor. The prime minister also… Read more »