Ex Clinical Technician's Six Year Ban
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- Published: Wednesday, 03 February 2021 08:58
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A former clinical dental technician who was struck off the dental register after facing charges of making misleading and dishonest statements has now been banned from being a company director for six years.
Barrie Semp was removed from the dental register in 2018 following charges of failing to maintain appropriate standards of record keeping, not carrying out a full assessment of a patient and giving misleading and dishonest statements that he was a ‘specialist denturist’ in his practice’s brochure.
An investigation by the Insolvency Service into the demise of The Smile Centre (UK), based in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, resulted in Mr Semp’s six year ban after administrators heard that two lengthy legal cases, concerning client complaints, cost the company an estimated £100,000 in legal costs, as his indemnity firm withdrew cover.
“This all combined to push the company into administration, with the company said to owe £655,268 to various creditors” reported the Bury Times.
Mr Semp, of Hale, near Altrincham was described by the Daily Mirror as Britain’s most dangerous ‘dentist’ following his bankruptcy in November 2020. The Mirror reported he ‘dishonestly’ claimed he ran ‘the most advanced denture clinic in all of Manchester’.
At the Professional Conduct hearing at which Mr Semp was removed from the dental register, it was heard that between 1997 and 2006, he received four criminal convictions for offences relating to the illegal practice of dentistry.
“The Insolvency Service inquiry questioned how £178,459 came to be transferred to Mr Semp from Smile and a related party from January 2017 to March 2018,” reported the Bury Times. “Investigators also found £86,204 had been deposited by Smile in Mr Semp’s personal account over a similar timeframe.
”Similar queries were raised as £110.277 had also been switched from a company account to a charge account held by Mr Semp. The agency also challenged the accuracy of the £112,411 claim he had made in the administration, allegedly owed from a director’s loan account. Further uncertainty surrounded whether all sales income had been accounted for, and tax and National Insurance payments were properly made.
But the Insolvency Service confirmed that as there were a lack of adequate accounting records, none of the issues could be clarified.
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