The Rt Hon Dame Andrea Leadsom DBE MP has been announced as the new Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Yesterday started with the news that Rishi Sunak had finally decided to dispense with the services of his Home Secretary, Suella Braverman. Then came that ’WTF?’ announcement that David Cameron, in a deal brokered by another former Tory leader, Lord Hague, was returning to Cabinet as Foreign Secretary. It was pure theatre.
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Many GDPs and their teams are too busy to spend long looking upstream at the businesses that supply them with the equipment and materials that they rely on. The colossal size of many of these companies compared to a typical practice can make them seem remote, but they depend on those same practices to stay in business.
The revelation that diagnoses of oral cancers are rising as access to an NHS dentist slides will come as no surprise to dental professionals.
NHS England used its weekly ’Dentistry and Oral Health Update’ bulletin to announce the appointment of two new Deputy Chief Dental Officers for England.
Environmental, or ’green’ issues, are seldom far from the news headlines. Whether it’s Uxbridge electors rejecting the London Mayor’s controversial ’ULEZ’ scheme or campaigners blaming ’global warming’ caused by human behaviour for droughts and floods, there’s no escaping the messaging.
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These are not GDPUK’s words, but those of the National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers (NASDAL), who state that “Goodwill values are on the slide” with figures to support their claim.
With an election around twelve months away, and the polls not looking promising, the government continues to make a variety of policy announcements that it may never need to deliver.
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