GDC Searches For Replacement For Controversial Chair
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- Published: Thursday, 28 January 2021 07:50
- Written by Chris Tapper
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The search has begun to replace the General Dental Council’s controversial Chair, Dr William ‘Bill’ Moyes.
Dr Moyes comes to the end of his eight years in the post at the end of September 2021 and the GDC has appointed executive recruitment firm Saxton Bampfylde to lead the search for a new Chair.
Dr Moyes is a lay Council Member but the GDC said on its website that it is open to applications from both lay people and registrants. The headhunting firm is helping to recruit a new Council Member to replace registrant member Catherine Brady. GDPUK understands the GDC is keen to receive applications from Dental Care Professionals for the Council Member post.
The current GDC Chair found himself at the end of calls for his resignation in 2016 following a damning report from the Professional Standards Authority which investigated concerns raised by a whistleblower in 2013 regarding Investigating Committee processes. The PSA found ‘unacceptable, organisational and personal failings at the GDC’ and singled out Bill Moyes for failures and ‘inappropriate decisions.’
Bill Moyes was said to have failed to grasp the significance or seriousness of concerns raised by the whistleblower and was slow to inform other Council Members of the existence of the whistleblowing issue.
He was also said to be unwilling to take interim remedial action in response to the whistleblower concerns and even those raised in the GDC’s own report. The Chair and his Council were said to have repeatedly failed in their obligation to challenge information provided by their executive team and the PSA said it was inappropriate for Dr Moyes to appoint the GDC’s former director of governance to investigate their own manager. The GDC was also said to have prevented. The PSA from accessing the information it needed to complete its enquiry.
Following the report, the then Chair of the British Dental Association Mick Armstrong called for the resignation of Dr Moyes.
He said in 2016 “The BDA has consistently argued that the GDC is out of control and unaccountable, once again, we can see why,’ British Dental Association (BDA) chair, Mick Armstrong said.
‘The chair doesn’t understand dentistry and has failed to grasp that a fundamental prerequisite for good regulation is accountability and transparency."
“As this report shows, he has a disregard for his peers and is not open to scrutiny by the council.” He added “Dr Moyes must go.”
The newly-appointed Chair will start his or her term on the 1st October and the role will require a minimum of two days per week. Any appointee will be expected to serve a minimum of six years in the role. The new Chair can expect to receive £55,000 per annum.
The General Dental Council can only recommend a candidate for a new Chair, since the appointment is ultimately made by the Privy Council.
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