New members appointed to GDC Council

The new council members take up their posts on October 1. They are:

The new council members bring skills and experience from other regulators and sectors, as well as healthcare and dentistry.

Margaret Kellett and Catherine Brady, both dentist registrant members, have both been appointed for a second term of office; Margaret for a three and Catherine for a four-year term.

The new members join the GDC Council at a pivotal time for the organisation. It is pressing ahead with the vision set out in Shifting the balance: a better, fairer system of dental regulation, which was published in January. This will see a greater focus on enforcement to prevention within the model of dental regulation, ensuring effort is focused ‘upstream’. This will deliver better outcomes for patients and result in a fairer, more proportionate system of regulation.

This vision allows the council to build on the substantial work that has already been done across the GDC to improve its systems and processes, enabling it to be more outward facing, building collaborative networks with patients, dental professionals and its wider partners. As a result, the GDC will be better able to achieve its objectives of patient protection and public confidence in dental services.