The General Dental Council (GDC) is launching a pilot that will test a change to the initial stages of its fitness to practise processes to improve proportionality and timeliness. Process changes are...
With the August 28 deadline fast approaching, over 2,000 dental care professionals still need to make their annual CPD declaration, with an additional 1,500 who have made a statement but have not yet...
The number of dental care professionals (DCPs) on the UK Register, following the recent annual renewal period, has risen when compared with the trajectory of previous years. On the morning after...
The Association of Dental Groups (ADG) has welcomed the announcement by the General Dental Council to increase the number of Part 2 sittings of the Overseas Registration Examination (ORE) for dentists...
The General Dental Council (GDC) will increase the number of Part 2 sittings of the Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) from three to four in 2024, after reaching an agreement with consortium partners to...
The General Dental Council (GDC) is combining its fitness to practise and registration directorates into a regulation directorate, led by a new, recently recruited executive director who joins in...
The British Dental Association has warned that the UK Government’s below-inflation pay awards will undermine efforts to bring NHS dentistry back from the brink.
Following an open and competitive recruitment process, the General Dental Council (GDC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Serbjit Kaur MBE and Timea Milovecz as registrant members of the...
Following the conclusion of the Health and Social Care Committee’s inquiry into NHS dentistry, it has described the evidence of pain and distress due to being unable to see an NHS dentist as “totally...
The General Dental Council (GDC) convened the latest Dental Leadership Network to improve understanding of the systems in which the dental sector operates from the perspective of dental professionals.
The General Dental Council (GDC) has welcomed the announcement from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) on June 29, 2023, that standstill provisions providing for automatic recognition of...
On July 4, 2023, the General Dental Council (GDC) launched a consultation on routes to registration for internationally qualified dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs).