17th December 2015 12:42 pm
Doctors are regulated by the General Medical Council, dentists by the General Dental Council, pharmacists by the General Pharmaceutical Council and barristers by the Bar Standards Board.
There are around 11 Royal Colleges that review a doctor’s ability to practice. Although some dentists specialisein such a way that they have to join a medical college, their ability to practice as a dentist appears to be directly regulated by the British Dental Council.
Pharmacists become members of the Royal PharmaceuticalSociety, which only recently passed regulatory authority to a new body called the General Pharmaceutical Council. Although a pharmacist might work directly for a drugs company, in a hospital or in a community pharmacy they are all in the same society. The Bar Standards Board appears similar to the General Dental Council in that they oversee barristers almost directly.
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Early last August I was doing my civic duty and eating out to help out when, upon biting down on what should have been an innocuous cod steak, I heard an unwelcome crunch.
It was my first meal out in what felt like a million years – a birthday lunch for a close friend – and I wasn’t about to let a mere dental emergency ruin our big day out.