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.
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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.
Cautious welcome or expression of concern? Three long established indemnity organisations have expressed differently expressed but in many ways consistent views on the latest changes to the GDC‘s Fitness to Practice process.
Many MP‘s have been asking for a dental school in their area believing that it is the solution to local access problems. One lucky group now appear to have been granted their wish, with a project receiving £1.5 million funding, and set to proceed.
It has been a tough few weeks for regulator bosses. The CQC may need to consider fitting a revolving door to their headquarters as yet another senior figure has announced that they will be leaving.