Turning aspiration into early action

The GDC has this week announced their three year strategy entitled Patients Professionals Partners Performance. The document sets out a number of key objectives with the aim of developing an improved model of dental regulation.

“MDDUS welcomes the GDC’s commitment to a faster, more streamlined and transparent service,” says MDDUS chief executive Chris Kenny. “We will work with the GDC to help them deliver a regulatory system that better serves patients and dentists.                  

“Complaints continue to rise and we agree that wider reform is needed to enable the regulator to improve efficiency, transparency and decision making in their fitness to practise process. The challenge now is to turn aspiration into early action in order for the plan to be credible and effective.”

MDDUS has seen a significant increase in the number of members subject to investigation by the GDC in recent years (up 32 per cent in 2015), the vast majority of which lead to no action.