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GENERAL
DENTAL COUNCIL
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Welcome to the GDC
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Your presenter today is:
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Aims
Ours
To demonstrate how we effectively protect the public and
maintain standards within the profession
Yours
To learn how to meet GDC expectations and understand the
meaning of professionalism
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Our purpose
is to protect the public by regulating the dental team.
We do that by:
• Registering qualified professionals;
• Setting standards of dental practice and conduct;
• Assuring the quality of dental education;
• Ensuring professionals keep their skills up-to-date;
• Investigating allegations and complaints about dentists or dental care
professionals and taking appropriate action;
• Working to strengthen patient protection.
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What we do
We are the organisation which regulates dental professionals
in the United Kingdom.
By law, all dentists, dental nurses, dental technicians, clinical
dental technicians, dental hygienists, dental therapists and
orthodontic therapists must be registered with us to work in the
UK.
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Getting on our Registers
Registration
We have two registers:
• The Dentists Register;
• and the Dental Care Professionals Register.
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Getting on our Registers
Quality Assurance
The standards we expect dental professionals to have reached
at the end of their education and training for registration are set
out in two documents:
• The First Five Years
• Developing the Dental Team
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Staying on our Registers
• Continuing Professional Development
• Revalidation
• ARF
• Scope of Practice
• Standards for Dental Professionals
• Indemnity
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Annual Retention Fee
• All registrants must pay their annual retention fee to
remain registered and eligible to work.
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Scope of Practice
• This guidance sets out the skills and abilities
each registrant group should have
• It also outlines the type of additional skills they might acquire
during their career
• You should use your professional judgment to decide if you
are sufficiently trained and competent to do something and you
should bear in mind that you may have to justify your actions
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Continuing Professional
Development
Demonstrate that you are keeping your knowledge up to date
Dentists
250 hours over 5 years
Core recommended subjects
75 hours must be verifiable
DCPs
150 hours over 5 years
Core recommended subjects
50 hours must be verifiable
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Being removed from our Registers
There are various ways in which you can be removed from
the Registers which include:
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Not paying your ARF
Not completing your CPD at the end of the 5 year cycle
Asking to have your name voluntarily removed
In future, not revalidating
Erasure from the Register by one of the Practice
Committees
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The top complaints*
Poor behaviour/conduct
Clinical/Treatment
Advertising
Cross Infection Control
Fraud
Health problems
Service provided
Fees charged
Sexual assault/abuse
*GDC figures for 2009
35.30%
23.32%
8.29%
1.99%
1.78%
1.51%
1.17%
0.89%
0.62%
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Fitness to practise impaired?
Case Study
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How to get involved
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Consultations
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Working with us
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Let us know what you think
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Revalidation