Terrorism
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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Tony Blair and Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf have agreed to work closer together to combat terrorism. In a trip to Lahore, Mr Blair praised the “tremendous co-operation” demonstrated by Pakistan in tackling the terror threat, such as that posed by the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan. At a press conference following the talks, the prime minister… Read more »
There is “serious” evidence that Islamist extremists are using British universities to spread their message, the higher education minister has warned. Bill Rammell said universities must be more vigilant about identifying extremism on campus, and has today published new guidance on how to do this. It includes a definition of violent extremism in the name… Read more »
