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Answering members' questions on the legal and ethical obligations to consider when deregistering patients in Scotland.
A member received a claim alleging they had extracted a patient's molar unnecessarily, and turned to the DDU for help.
The NHS dental service needs a reset - but dental professionals shouldn’t become strangers to their patients.
Caught between her duty of candour and her employer's instructions after a complaint from a patient, a DDU member called our advice line for help.
Having covered the principles of consent in our last issue, we turn to one of its key applications in practice – how to assess capacity to consent.