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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 »
BASC has introduced a new, more flexible way to achieve the Deer Stalking Certificate (DSC1). For those seeking certification but unable to commit to a four-day course, BASC’s new ‘assessment-only’ days offer an efficient alternative, reducing both time and cost. With assessment-only days held at various locations across the UK, participants can take all five… Read more »
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A rethink on the way expensive hospital-building schemes are managed in the NHS is expected after MPs condemned the handling of a £900 million project in London. Plans to build a new health campus on the site of three hospitals in Paddington, west London, collapsed in 2005 after £15 million investment and five years of… Read more »
The government has today hit back at the Conservatives’ new health reform plans, saying their pledge to scrap NHS targets would result in an increase in MRSA. Tory leader David Cameron used a speech to nurses this morning to attack ministers’ record on tackling the hospital-acquired infection, which kills 5,000 people a year. He warned… Read more »
