Shouldn't all nurses - including dental nurses - be on the Midwifery and
Nursing Register?
http://www.nmc-uk.org/aSection.aspx?SectionID=20
It looks as though checking would be easy!
Doesn't professional insurance come as part of the GPs insurance if
several GPs in a practice are using the same company?
I don't know - but my practice manager would..
Mary
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<[log in to unmask]>, Paul
Batchelor <[log in to unmask]> writes
>All of this happens in general dental practice. Can I suggest that it
>might be worth LMCs who are interested speaking to their counterparts
>or even the dental practice advisor that exists in the PCT. And believe
>me if you think things are getting onerous now unless all health
>professionals get their act together, i.e. work together, then the
>political masters are going to right royally have us.
>
>More than happy to expand on what happens in dental practice.
>
>Paul
>On 10 Dec 2009, at 23:44, Julian Bradley wrote:
>
>> Do the UK GPs on this know if the nurses they employ have kept their
>>registration up to date?
>> Could anyone be employing a nurse who did have a current PIN when
>>recruited but doesn't now?
>> Should nurses provide their own insurance, should practices provide
>>nurse specific insurance, or is the vicarious liability of properly
>>insured partners sufficient ***from the patients' point of view***.
>>
>> Thoughts / references / comments all welcome.
>>
>> Julian
>
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Mary Hawking
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