Fitness to Practise
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Work underway to report cause of death during active FtP cases, says GDC
The GDC has provided an update to address recent concerns about the level of detail that is put into the…
Dentistry
GDC’s failure to meet all standards of good regulation ‘not good enough’
Calls have been made for the General Dental Council (GDC) to take action to reduce the amount of time taken…
Dentistry
GDC failed to meet all standards of ‘good regulation’, report finds
The General Dental Council (GDC) failed to meet standards for timeliness in both fitness to practise cases and registration processing.…
Dentistry
Why we need action on blue on blue GDC referrals
Neel Kothari discusses the implications of blue on blue GDC referrals, and how the very nature of dentistry and its…
Columnists
Dental nurse suspended for sharing ‘inappropriate and racially motivated’ posts on Facebook
A dental nurse has been suspended after sharing posts on Facebook that made ‘negative and divisive’ comments about non-white racial…
Dentistry
GDC launches pilot to ‘improve timeliness’ of fitness to practise processes
The General Dental Council (GDC) has launched a pilot to ‘improve proportionality and timeliness’ of fitness to practise processes. Announced…
Dentistry
Dentist suspended following claims of inappropriate sexual behaviour towards trainee dental nurse
A dentist has been suspended for 18 months following claims he inappropriately touched a trainee dental nurse in the practice.…
Dentistry
GDC releases update on deaths during fitness to practise investigations
The GDC will no longer release its report on the cause of death of registrants who have died during an…
Dentistry
How much attention have you paid to the dental news this week? – 20 May 2023
It’s been a busy week for dental news. Missed it? Here’s what’s happened over the past seven days… GDC versus…
Dentistry
Dental professionals in London or south east ‘more likely to have a fitness to practise concern’
The General Dental Council has published registration and fitness to practise statistics for 2022, revealing that nearly half of newly-registered…
Dentistry
High Court overturns GDC decision to erase dentist
The High Court has found that NHS regulations do not forbid ‘top-up’ fees, after the GDC struck off a dentist.…
Dentistry
Fitness to practise investigations have ‘significant’ negative impact on mental health, says GDC report
A new GDC-commissioned report into fitness to practise investigations found they had a ‘significant negative impact’ on individuals – despite…
Dentistry
GDC was unable to disclose number of suicides
After being unable to reveal data on the number of people who have died by suicide while under fitness to…
Dentistry
Overseas graduates received harsher fitness to practise sanctions
Dentists who graduated overseas were more likely to receive harsher sanctions if they did not have legal support, GDC figures…
Dentistry
Dental news you’ve missed this week – 13 August 2022
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem – here’s what happened over the past seven days… NHS dentistry…
Dentistry
GDC publishes ethnicity data for the first time
A disproportionately high number of GDC concerns were raised against Asian or Asian British dentists in 2021, the GDC report…
Dentistry
GDC delays have a human cost, the DDU shows
After a review into the GDC’s fitness to practise processes, the DDU has urged the GDC to improve its delays.…
Dentistry
Mental health in dentistry – is perfectionism still possible?
Robert Chaffe details the experiences he went through last year that left him fighting a GDC fitness to practise case.…
Aesthetic dentistry
Professionalism: social media risks
Roopinder Brar, medical adviser at MDDUS and Sarah Harford, MDDUS dental adviser, look at the pitfalls dentists face when engaging with…
Dentistry
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