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DDU highlights challenges in proposed changes to registration of overseas-qualified dentists

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 »

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Officer under “significant pressure” to bug MP

A police officer claimed last night he had been forced to bug conversations between a Muslim MP and a terror suspect. Mark Kearney, a former office with Thames Valley Police, said he had been put under “significant pressure” to record conversations between the pair at Woodhill Prison. In a statement released last night, the former… Read more »

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Police win judicial review over police pay award
Police take Home Office to court over pay

Police officers have won the right to mount a legal challenge over their pay award. The Home Office will now face a High Court challenge over its refusal to backdate the 2.5 per cent pay award, as recommended by the Police Arbitration Tribunal. Police officers claimed this decision effectively devalued it to an annual 1.9… Read more »