Welcome to the GDC GENERAL DENTAL COUNCIL .

Welcome to the GDC

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Your presenter today is:

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Aims

OursTo demonstrate how we effectively protect the public and maintain standards within the profession

YoursTo learn how to meet GDC expectations and understand the meaning of professionalism

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Our purpose

is to protect the public by regulating the dental team.

We do that by:

• Registering qualified professionals;• Setting standards of dental practice and conduct;• Assuring the quality of dental education;• Ensuring professionals keep their skills up-to-date;• Investigating allegations and complaints about dentists or dental care professionals and taking appropriate action;• Working to strengthen patient protection.

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What we do

We are the organisation which regulates dental professionals in the United Kingdom.

By law, all dentists, dental nurses, dental technicians, clinical dental technicians, dental hygienists, dental therapists and orthodontic therapists must be registered with us to work in the UK.

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Getting on our Registers

Registration

We have two registers:

• The Dentists Register;• and the Dental Care Professionals Register.

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Getting on our Registers

Quality Assurance

The standards we expect dental professionals to have reached at the end of their education and training for registration are set out in two documents:

• The First Five Years• Developing the Dental Team

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Staying on our Registers

• Continuing Professional Development • Revalidation • ARF• Scope of Practice• Standards for Dental Professionals• Indemnity

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Annual Retention Fee

• All registrants must pay their annual retention fee to remain registered and eligible to work.

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Scope of Practice

• This guidance sets out the skills and abilities

each registrant group should have

• It also outlines the type of additional skills they might acquire during their career

• You should use your professional judgment to decide if you are sufficiently trained and competent to do something and you should bear in mind that you may have to justify your actions

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Continuing Professional Development Demonstrate that you are keeping your knowledge up to date

Dentists250 hours over 5 yearsCore recommended subjects75 hours must be verifiable

DCPs150 hours over 5 yearsCore recommended subjects50 hours must be verifiable

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Being removed from our Registers

There are various ways in which you can be removed from the Registers which include:

• Not paying your ARF• Not completing your CPD at the end of the 5 year cycle• Asking to have your name voluntarily removed• In future, not revalidating• Erasure from the Register by one of the Practice

Committees

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The top complaints*Poor behaviour/conduct 35.30%

Clinical/Treatment 23.32%

Advertising 8.29%

Cross Infection Control 1.99%

Fraud 1.78%

Health problems 1.51%

Service provided 1.17%

Fees charged 0.89%

Sexual assault/abuse 0.62%

*GDC figures for 2009

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Fitness to practise impaired?

Case Study

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How to get involved

• Consultations

• Working with us

• Let us know what you think

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Revalidation

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