Category: General Dental Council (GDC)

The GDC is changing how dental professionals with conditions imposed on their practice and those who have agreed to undertakings are supported.

A report from the General Dental Council has shown another large drop in the number of dental nurses on the dental register.

An important case for dental professionals, but the principles apply equally to other healthcare professionals. I look at the case of Hughes v Rattan.

The General Dental Council referred 38% less fitness to practise cases to a fitness to practise committee compared to 2019.

Mental health review by the GDC reveals dentists do suffer an increased level of stress and burnout with litigation and regulation the main causes.

With one week to go before the end of the fitness to practise reform consultation, the GDC looks at opportunities and challenges presented for dentistry.

Dentist with “eventful” regulatory history lose appeal against erasure from the General Dental Council (GDC) register for misconduct.

A dentist who treated patients immediately after his return from Greece without self-isolating, has had an Interim Suspension imposed by the GDC.

A dentist who accepted large sums of money for life-changing treatment she never provided has been erased.

Dental Complaints Service Review 2020 reveal that it referred 36 cases to the GDC’s, of which 24 cases related to just three dental professionals.