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Jon Hall – The Open University
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If you want to practice medicine in the UK, you need a licence to practice. In the IT industry, we’re different. You don’t need a licence to practice no matter whether it’s web page design or the software to control a medical device you’re working on. Some have said that the development of a software licence to practice means stopping the industry for five years, but is that necessarily the case?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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