The GDC has spent a lot of time, effort, and registrant‘s money looking at how it can update the standards it provides. As of the 30th September 2024, there were 123,444 dental professionals on the register and the GDC sets standards that they must all follow. Failure to meet them is likely to have consequences, particularly repeated failures.
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It‘s the pantomime season again and the GDC have been looking in the mirror and asking for some positive feedback. The results of the GDC stakeholder survey 2023 have now been published and the results suggest that there has been a ‘modest‘ improvement in how the regulator is viewed since the last survey in 2020.
Dental payment plan provider Denplan has published a new ‘white paper‘ detailing proposals gathered from its member dentists to address ‘the Future Of Dentistry‘.
Read more: Denplan Publishes White Paper At Westminster Health Forum
The profession‘s negotiators have been very clear. NHS dentistry has been sitting at the bar of the last chance saloon for a while.
Read more: The Writing on the Wall? NHSE Evidence for Pay Review
As the professions representatives begin to worry that their post-election meeting with Wes Streeting will be looked back on as a high point, the dental headlines look very familiar.
Lord Toby Harris will complete his four year term on the council of the GDC and Chair of the Council in September 2025.
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