GDC

Refugee dental professionals given priority ORE access

The General Dental Council (GDC) has introduced a new policy granting priority Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) booking access to dental…

Dentistry

News you’ve missed this week – 18 January 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

Almost 4,000 more dentists registered in UK since 2021 

The GDC has released its annual registration figures which show that the number of dentists registered in the UK has…

Dentistry

What needs to change in 2025?

A new treatment plan: John Makin reflects on the state of the dental service at the end of the year…

Business

News you’ve missed this week – 21 December 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 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

Kevin Lewis: the successes and failures of 2024

Tempus fugit: Kevin Lewis offers his seasonal retrospective on the year’s successes and failures, arrivals and departures, events and non-events.…

Columnists

News you’ve missed this week – 7 December 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 makes remote hearings permanent  

The General Dental Council (GDC) has confirmed its move for dental professional hearings to be held online is to be…

Dentistry

Dental therapists’ scope of practice: why it’s time for change 

With the GDC’s scope of practice review soon to be released, Cat Edney proposes how the scope of dental therapists…

Columnists

Dental Leadership Network: addressing the dental workforce crisis

November’s Dental Leadership Network event tackled the problem of building and maintaining the UK’s dental workforce. On 12 November, the…

Dentistry

News you’ve missed this week – 30 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 showed ‘woeful ignorance’ in handling confidential papers, says High Court

The General Dental Council (GDC) has acknowledged ‘significant deficiencies’ in the way it acted following a High Court judgement over…

Dentistry

A cry for help from dental labs

Matt Everatt pens a poignant poem ahead of the festive season, addressing the feeling of disillusionment across UK dental labs.…

Dentistry

Kevin Lewis: turf wars in dentistry

Do we really reap what we sow? Kevin Lewis examines whether or not the old proverb is right. Sod it.…

Columnists

‘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 revises fitness to practise processes to ‘improve timeliness’

The General Dental Council (GDC) has adopted an initial enquiries process to speed up fitness to practise (FtP) investigations. The…

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