Dental nurses, are you involved in the fight against the further spread of the pandemic influenza H1N1 (swine flu)? Are you protecting yourselves, your families

Back in August, an article appeared in the GP magazine Pulse about salaried GPs considering splitting from British Medical Association (BMA). They threatened to go

ough times both require and produce outstanding leaders. Winston Churchill in WWII and Nelson Mandela overseeing the birth of a post-apartheid South Africa are two

A comprehensive training programme is the most effective means of preparing staff to address disruptive behaviour or assaults. There are, however, some basic steps that

I’m living on station at RAF Cranwell [in Sleaford, Lincolnshire] so I’m in surgery within 10 minutes. I was an aircraft technician, but I’d been

Before Facebook and the internet, there was Radar. I should explain, perhaps, that I am referring here not to the electronic wizardry that gave the

Which of us hasn’t quietly consulted the Business Link website for information about making an employee redundant? Or read, with more than usual interest, the

The difference between good results and great results is often directly related to the ability to bring all the disciplines in dentistry together for the

There has long been an inherent flaw in most of the ways in which dentists are remunerated for their services. Many of them are barking

I have been hoodwinked and I don’t like it. When the Steele report was published in June, the secretary of state told the profession and

The media has once again been preoccupied with the NHS, this time to defend it against vituperative attacks from US Republican opponents of President Obama’s

I am not particularly a morning person. I start to function best mid-morning, but I can work just as well in the afternoon. I occasionally