Professor Howard Tumber, Dean of the School of Social and Human Sciences, is conducting a sociological study into the making of the new BBC series, MacIntye Undercover.
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FIVE, the renamed Channel Five,has a new face to host its current affairs programme.
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Tuesday 30th November 2004 saw The Dental Law Partnership feature in a Channel 5 documentary on the dental profession. In a detailed case-lead film, investigative journalist, Donal McIntyre, explored the relationship between the dental profession, its Regulatory Body, The General Dental Council, and the general public in a program entitled. ‘Can you trust your dentist?’
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DISGRACED GP Dr Stephen Crosby will be the focus of a TV documentary – days after being struck off by the General Medical Council.
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Godfather spinning in his grave as gangland rival guards his old pub
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A Nurse who kicked a female patient with learning difficulties on the buttocks and placed a waste paper bin on the head of another client has been allowed back to work. Despite four counts of misconduct which included forcing a resident to take medication and being fond to be dishonest in some key elements in his application to be a licenced manager of a care home – The Care Stabndards Tribunal have granted him a licence. The decision last year has been brought to my attention by a viewer.The unamed nurse applied to be manager of the Middlefield House Nursing Home in Gainsborough Lincolnshire was granted his licence by the CST after a `finely balanced decision`. You can read the full report on www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/cstdecisions and wonder just what it takes to ban bad care workers from working in caring environments.
Comment
I have long criticised such bodies for their cotton wool approach to disiplining carers. Indeed, our work investigating the professional standards committees of the Dentists and the Doctors showed a predictable reluctance to keep workers out of the profession even if they were found guilty of sex crimes. If you despair you are in good company.
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