General Dental Council appoints Clinical Dental Advisers to aid Fitness to Practise process

The team are all currently practising dentists and their role will be to give early clinical advice on complaints via written reports.

Jonathan Green, Executive Director, Fitness to Practise at the GDC, said, “I am happy to announce the new appointments and welcome them all to the team. The Clinical Dental Advisers and Senior Clinical Dental Adviser, who will manage the team, will play a crucial part in helping the GDC fulfil its statutory duty to investigate dental professionals whose fitness to practise is called into question.”

The new appointments are:

Margaret Naylor, Senior Clinical Dental Adviser

Margaret is principal dentist in two NHS practices and has 16 years’ experience as a Foundation Dentist Trainer. Margaret works within the Practice Advice and Support Scheme (PASS), helping dentists who have experienced problems, and has been a representative on the South Yorkshire PAG as well as holding positions on the local General Dental Practice Committee and the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw LPN. Margaret is also a BDA Good Practice Assessor and an Honorary Clinical Lecturer for the Outreach Programme at the University of Sheffield.