Short Cuts: Dentists to lose right to give general anaesthetics
Dentists will be banned from giving general anaesthetics in their practices from 2002 following a review by chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson. Between 1996 and 1999, eight people died while receiving general anaesthetic in a dentist's surgery, of whom five were children. Any practices continuing to give general anaesthetics ...
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