Fitness to Practise
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GDC outlines its plans for the next three years
The General Dental Council (GDC) has published its 2025 Costed Corporate Plan (CCP), detailing its workplan for the next three…
Dentistry
Will the storm of fitness to practise injustice ever clear?
Policy makers must address the unforgiving dento-legal weather created by fitness to practise procedures if they want to resolve the…
Dentistry
News you’ve missed this week – 15 February 2025
It’s been a busy week in the world of dental news. Missed the headlines? Here’s what’s happened over the past…
Dentistry
Fitness to practise: all you need to know as a dental professional
We explore what fitness to practise in dentistry is, recent changes that have come into force and what the profession…
Dentistry
GDC fails to reach all standards of ‘good regulation’ in 2023/24
The General Dental Council (GDC) has met 16 out of 18 Standards of Good Regulation for 2023/24. This marks the…
Dentistry
‘Mewing’ dentist struck off after claiming treatment can expand the brain
A dentist has been struck off after offering ‘inappropriate and misleading’ treatment recommendations, prompting warnings from orthodontic experts. The dentist…
Dentistry
News you’ve missed this week – 9 November 2024
It’s been a busy week in the world of dental news. Missed the headlines? Here’s what’s happened over the past…
Dentistry
GDC discloses number of suicides among dental professionals with fitness to practise concerns
The cause of death for dental professionals who have died while fitness to practise (FtP) concerns were investigated or remediated…
Dentistry
Four in five whistleblowing reports led to regulatory action, GDC reveals
The General Dental Council (GDC) has published its 2024 annual report on whistleblowing disclosures in dentistry. From 01 April 2023…
Dentistry
Prioritise regulatory reform in dentistry, says profession
Reform of healthcare professional regulation and more wellbeing protection are being called on to be prioritised by the government. The…
Dentistry
GDC updates guidance on voluntary removal from register
The General Dental Council (GDC) this week released updated guidance for dental professionals under investigation for fitness to practise concerns who seek…
Dentistry
Catch up with this week’s dental news – 17 August 2024
It’s been a busy week in the world of dental news. Missed the headlines? Here’s what’s happened over the past…
Dentistry
Covert surveillance will be used ‘sparingly’ in investigations, says GDC
The GDC has released new legal and ethical framework on the use of covert surveillance during fitness to practise investigations. The…
Dentistry
Catch up with this week’s dental news – 6 July 2024
It’s been a busy week in the world of dental news. Missed the headlines? Here’s what’s happened over the past…
Dentistry
More fitness to practise cases are closing early, says GDC
We are seeing fewer concerns and closing more cases at the early stages of the fitness to practise (FtP) process,…
Dentistry
GDC to extend changes to fitness to practise processes
The General Dental Council (GDC) has announced it will extend and broaden the scope of its pilot to ‘improve proportionality…
Dentistry
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