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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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Cuts to the number of NHS hospital beds should be seen as evidence of a more efficient health service, not one that is struggling to cope, hospital managers insist today. A new report from the NHS Confederation says that although the number of hospital beds has fallen by 31 per cent in the last 20… Read more »
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