GDC launches new scheme to encourage local resolution
2016-09-20
The GDC’s new ‘GDC NHS concerns handling scheme’ hopes to encourage local resolution The General Dental Council (GDC) has introduced a new process of dealing
Fitness to Practise
GDC offers support for those going through FtP proceedings
2016-05-05
The GDC is now offering support for those dental professionals going through a fitness to practise proceeding The GDC has launched a new scheme to
New powers for the GDC
2015-12-10
The General Dental Council has been given the go-ahead to make changes to its fitness to practise proceedings, Sophie Bracken reports. An order has been
GDC given new powers to streamline investigation of dental complaints
2015-11-19
The GDC has been given new powers aimed to help make its fitness to practise procedures more efficient The Department of Health has announced new powers that
Locking horns
2015-10-14
Kevin Lewis reviews the latest news regarding the GDC’s consultation over the annual retention fee. In the afternoon of 6 October, I had a strange
I’m a dentist, get me outta here
2015-09-04
The GDC should only investigate the initial complaint, and not sift through clinical records to find ‘something to stick’, says Jeff Sherer. This week I performed
What the shooting of Cecil the lion can teach dentists
2015-07-29
Michael Watson covers the recent story about a dentist killing Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe. Perhaps if the lion hadn’t been called Cecil…perhaps if the
FGDP(UK) raises concerns over the GDC
2015-04-29
FGDP(UK) raises concerns over fitness to practise process The Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) has raised concerns over the General Dental Council’s (GDC’s) fitness to practise
