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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 »
Dental professionals are being warned by the Dental Defence Union (DDU) that the application of tooth jewellery poses an ethical dilemma. The DDU has published a fictional dilemma, based on real cases notified by members, in which a dentist was asked by a patient for his teeth to be made to resemble fangs. The patient was… Read more »
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Tony Blair committed today to “transform” the way health services are delivered, pledging that no patient will wait more than 18 weeks for NHS treatment by the end of 2008. The prime minister this morning visited King’s College Hospital in London to look at the new innovations being introduced to cut waiting times. These include… Read more »
Increasing pressure on primary care trusts (PCTs) to recover from budget deficits is hitting sexual health services, a new report has revealed. A survey for the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) shows nearly two-thirds of PCTs are diverting some or all of the funding intended for sexual health services to other areas and calls on the… Read more »
