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Responding to recently announced proposals by the Department of Health and Social Care on provisional registration for overseas-qualified dentists, John Makin, head of the Dental Defence Union (DDU), said: “It’s important that the GDC makes the process of registration for colleagues who qualified overseas as smooth as possible while discharging its key duty, that of ensuring patient… Read more »
Doctors are being reminded to get help if a patient makes an inappropriate advance, now that new guidance by the regulator places more emphasis on reporting unacceptable sexual behaviour in the workplace. In a recent MDU survey on receiving gifts from patients around 15% of the 411 MDU members who responded had concerns about the reason for… Read more »
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By Laura Miller The Metropolitan Police commissioner has received a formal letter of complaint from Green party member Jenny Jones following concerns about the treatment of the G20 protesters by police. “The protesters’ stories of police brutality and the police’s story of complete professionalism just don’t stack up,” she said. Ms Jones, the Green’s home… Read more »
By Sarah Garrod Arriving at the Excel yesterday morning, my first thought was ‘what was all the fuss about?’ Although you could get quite close to the Excel itself, there were certainly more journalists and photographers than there were protestors, and those protestors who had made the effort were the peaceful, intelligent types, who were… Read more »
