The General Dental Council (GDC) has this week published its updated decision-making guidance in a bid to reduce fear among registrants. The regulator said it comes
Most dental professionals are dissatisfied with the fitness to practise process and the outcome of their case, according to the General Dental Council (GDC). Released
Having fewer dental professionals fear the General Dental Council (GDC) is just one of the aims set by the regulator in its new strategy. The
Carol Somerville Roberts shares her personal experience of fitness to practise proceedings and advice for other dental professionals on how to cope. It was a
A dentist has been erased from the GDC register for submitting fake patient complaints as part of fitness to practise referrals against two other dental
The initial enquiries process introduced to improve ‘timeliness and proportionality’ in fitness to practise proceedings will now apply to isolated reports of low-level misconduct. In
Professionalism, privacy, and the perils of posting: Biju Krishnan shares some lessons from a GDC fitness to practise case in which a dental nurse was
Male dentists accounted for 65% of fitness to practise (FtP) concerns raised in 2024, as shown by newly-released GDC statistics. The General Dental Council’s (GDC)
The General Dental Council (GDC) has published its 2025 Costed Corporate Plan (CCP), detailing its workplan for the next three years. Released today (23 April),
Policy makers must address the unforgiving dento-legal weather created by fitness to practise procedures if they want to resolve the crisis in NHS dental provision,
The General Dental Council (GDC) has met 16 out of 18 Standards of Good Regulation for 2023/24. This marks the same number that were met
A dentist has been struck off after offering ‘inappropriate and misleading’ treatment recommendations, prompting warnings from orthodontic experts. The dentist was erased from the General
