Jun 10, 2024, 08:18 AM by Kirsten Edwards

The General Dental Council (GDC) has today (10 June) opened the annual renewal period for dental care professionals (DCPs).

Jun 3, 2024, 09:30 AM by Kirsten Edwards

May 31, 2024, 09:26 AM by Kirsten Edwards

May 30, 2024, 10:06 AM by Caroline Conway

We have reviewed and updated our equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy for 2024-2026, setting out our ambitions and objectives for the next two years.

May 29, 2024, 10:58 AM by Kirsten Edwards

Today we have published our annual Registration and Fitness to Practise statistical reports for 2023. Both reports include comparison data from previous years to show trends and changes over time.

May 16, 2024, 12:23 PM by Kirsten Edwards

We have welcomed the government's consultation on provisional registration for overseas-qualified dentists, and today we publish our response to the proposals

May 13, 2024, 13:58 PM by Kirsten Edwards

Overseas Registration Examination (ORE) tender for the next five years opens – and is subject to new rules

May 7, 2024, 13:46 PM by Caroline Conway

We announced in September last year that we would be undertaking a six-month initial inquiries pilot. The pilot was due to end in April but will now be extended for a further six months to provide a larger data set for analysis and evaluation of performance over a longer period.

Apr 30, 2024, 13:05 PM by Caroline Conway

We have today published our Costed Corporate Plan 2024 – 2026. This year’s plan sets out what we will do over the next three years and includes our forecast of income and expenditure for 2024, as well as reporting on our progress in 2023.

Apr 25, 2024, 12:53 PM by Caroline Conway

Following the ruling of the Court of Appeal in the case of General Dental Council v Williams [2023] EWCA Civ 481, that ‘top-up’ fees can be permissible under the NHS (General Dental Services Contracts) Regulations 2005 (The Contract Regulations), we undertook to consider whether the judgment had implications for the outcomes of previous Fitness to Practise cases.

Apr 23, 2024, 14:22 PM by Caroline Conway

We are today publishing the findings from research designed to help us to unlock the potential of GDC fitness to practise data.

Apr 9, 2024, 12:30 PM by Kirsten Edwards

Tom Whiting has been appointed as our new Chief Executive Officer and Registrar and will take up his position in the next three months

Mar 27, 2024, 13:00 PM by User Not Found

An update on work underway to address concerns about the level of detail that is put into the public domain regarding serious concerns considered by an Interim Orders Committee (IOC), to report data about the cause of death of registrants with an active fitness to practise (FtP) case and to improve the FtP process to reduce the impact it can have on participants.

Mar 15, 2024, 13:58 PM by User Not Found

The first of the Dental Leadership Network (DLN) events of 2024 took place on Thursday 14 March at Friends House, Euston, London.

Mar 13, 2024, 12:59 PM by User Not Found

The General Dental Council (GDC) has today published data about the working patterns of dentists.  As part of their annual renewal, 25,159 (57%) dentists responded to the work patterns survey, of which 24,152 (55%) were working in the UK dental sector.

Mar 6, 2024, 12:00 PM by User Not Found

Council has agreed new rules for registration of internationally-qualified dentists and dental care professionals from 9 March

Mar 4, 2024, 08:00 AM by User Not Found

Clare Paget has been appointed as Interim Executive Director, Legal and Governance, from 4 March 2024

Feb 16, 2024, 15:18 PM by User Not Found

The government’s announcement that it intends to legislate to create a new category of provisional registration for dentists qualified is very welcome.

Feb 7, 2024, 15:42 PM by User Not Found

We welcome the government’s commitment to improving the routes through which internationally qualified dental professionals can register to practise in the UK as part of their dental recovery plan.

Jan 26, 2024, 11:30 AM by User Not Found

After eight years with the GDC, Lisa Marie Williams – Executive Director, Legal and Governance - is stepping down at the end of March