GDC To Continue Surveillance and Under Guise Investigations
The General Dental Council [GDC] has a history of using covert surveillance including under-guise investigators, when building Fitness to Practise (FTP) cases. In 2021 it admitted ‘unlawfully undertaking an under-guise operation without reasonable justification‘, and paid an undisclosed sum of damages to a clinical dental technician supported by Dental Protection. The GDC had instructed an under-guise operation creating a fictitious scenario with two private investigators posing as relatives of “Evelyn”, an elderly relative who needed dentures but was too ill to attend in person.
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