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Counselling for registrants facing GDC practice committees

From Volume 47, Issue 6, June 2020 | Pages 476-478

Authors

Robert Baker

BDS, LDS, MFDS RCPS(Glas), MSND RCS(Edin), MSc, Bristol, DPDM Exeter

Farmer, Monchique, Portugal

Articles by Robert Baker

Abstract

This paper argues that dentists should act in a professional manner and take a collegiate approach to establish a support system for ‘colleagues in need’ when facing General Dental Council Fitness to Practice Committees similar to that provided for doctors in comparable circumstances.

CPD/Clinical Relevance: The incidence of an allegation made to the GDC, which are associated with registrants' mental and behavioural disorders, and subsequently avoiding difficult procedures, was 3.57 per 100 dentists in 2017.

Article

Like the medical profession, there has been considerable unease within the dental profession regarding the regulatory processes in recent years. Several publications have suggested that it has been found wanting.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

Dentists and doctors are each one of the 32 regulated occupations. Both professions are regulated by bodies established by UK law, the General Dental Council (GDC) and the General Medical Council (GMC), respectively. Both of which provide:

Both Councils are themselves regulated by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, which sets the standards for regulators in their document Standards of Good Regulation.11 So there is a very strong similarity between their regulatory processes.

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