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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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It could take a decade for the government’s reforms to improve standards in England’s secondary schools, David Blunkett has argued. The former education secretary said changes to nursery and primary schools had raised the results of national tests in the late 1990s. During an interview with his successor, Estelle Morris, on the Teachers’ TV channel,… Read more »
A quarter of secondary schools are failing to teach citizenship to a sufficient standard, a report by education watchdog Ofsted warned today. Compulsory citizenship lessons – which cover subjects including law, local government structures, the electoral system and human rights – were introduced for 11 to 16-year-olds in 2002 as part of a government drive… Read more »
