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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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By politics.co.uk staff Set limits on the number of people coming to Britain came into force today as the government introduced an interim measure in preparation of a full cap next year. The formal immigration cap will be imposed from April 2011, but an interim cap is being put in place from today to prevent… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff An unrepentant Peter Mandelson has shrugged of criticisms of his political memoir by insisting that his book would help the future of the Labour party. The former business secretary has been attacked by Labour leadership contenders for revealing further details of the fraught relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown throughout the… Read more »
