Forensic scrutiny

In its first hearing in front of the Commons Health Committee chair Bill Moyes and chief executive Evlynne Gilvarry came under unprecedented scrutiny - with the Committee pointing to written evidence from the Professional Standards Authority that described the regulator as worse than seven of the eight professional regulators it oversees.

GDC chair Bill Moyes closed by 'inviting' regular scrutiny from the committee, a call the BDA is now echoing in a letter to the committee.

Mick Armstrong, chair of the British Dental Association’s Principal Executive Committee, said:

"I want to thank Dr Wollaston and her colleagues for finally shining a light on the GDC. Today the Health Committee put the regulator under forensic scrutiny, raising real questions about trust, confidence, competence and leadership at the regulator.

"Important questions were posed, but answers were in short supply. The GDC's representatives demonstrated a shaky grasp of their own numbers. They failed to show progress on concrete improvements, and conspicuously failed to take any responsibility for problems of their own making.