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Croeso i Gaerdydd
Welcome to Cardiff
21 May 2010
www.gdc-uk.orgGENERAL DENTAL COUNCILwww.gdc-uk.org
The Distinctive Nature of Professionalism in Dentistry
Mary Dodd,
GDC Registrant Member.
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AimTo describe what the GDC expects of a registrant in order to ensure its professional requirements are met.
ObjectiveTo ensure registrants fully understand the obligations they must meet in order to stay on the GDC’s register.
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What is a professional?
Dictionary definition:
“The status of those who are highly trained and disciplined – that have the competence and correct demeanour to be members of a professional group.”
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You and the GDC
There are 3 elements to a dental professional’s relationship with the GDC.
•Entry on to a GDC register.•Staying on a GDC register.•Leaving a GDC register (voluntary or involuntary).
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Who’s on our Registers?
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Entry on to our Registers
Quality Assurance
The standards we expect dental professionals to have reached at the end of their education and training for registration are set out in two documents:
• Developing the Dental Team (interim for DCPs)• The First Five Years (interim for dentists)
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Staying on our Registers
•Annual Retention Fee.•Scope of Practice.•Standards for dental professionals.•Continuing Professional Development.•Indemnity.
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Annual Retention Fee
•All registrants must pay their ARF to remain registered and eligible for work. •The deadline for all DCPs to pay their ARF is 31 July each year.
•All DCPs will receive a reminder letter about this year’s fee by 24 May.
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Scope of Practice
• This guidance sets out the skills and abilities each registrant group should have.
• It also outlines the type of additional skills they might acquire during their career.
• Each registrant should use their professional judgment to decide if you are sufficiently trained and competent to do something. You should always bear in mind that you may have to justify your actions.
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Standards for Dental Professionals
There are six key principles in this booklet:
• Put patients’ interests first and act to protect them.
• Respect patients’ dignity and choices.• Protect the confidentiality of patients’ information.• Co-operate with other members of the dental team and other
healthcare colleagues in the interests of patients.• Maintain your professional knowledge and competence.• Be trustworthy.
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Continuing Professional Development for DCPs
• 150 hours over 5 years• Core recommended subjects(Medical emergencies, disinfection and decontamination andradiography and radiation protection*)
• 50 hours must be verifiable
*Dental technicians can substitute radiography and radiation with materials and equipment.
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Indemnity All GDC registrants must ensure there are arrangements in place so that patients can claim any compensation to which they may be entitled.
The only appropriate arrangements recognised by the GDC are:
• Membership of a defence organisation.(Dental Protection Limited, the Dental Defence Union or the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (whether your own membership or that of your employer)
• Professional indemnity arranged by you or your employer.
• NHS/Crown indemnity.
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Being removed from our Registers
There are various ways in which you can be removed from the Registers, which include:
• Not paying your ARF on time.• Not completing your CPD by the end of the 5 year
cycle.• Asking to have your name voluntarily removed.• Erasure from the Register by one of the Practice
Committees.
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Cases assessed by FtP2007
23
703
13
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
DCPs Dentists Anonymous
2008
79
851
73
0
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200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
DCPs Dentists Anonymous
2009
162
1208
94
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
DCPs Dentists Anonymous
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2009 FtP, IC and Practice Committee totals
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1444
821
178
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
Fitness to Practise Investigating Committee Practice Committees
Making headlines
• “I’m a dental nurse and I hate
patients…”(GDC issues warning over use of Facebook)
• ‘Child porn’ dental technician erased.(GDC erases convicted sex offender)
• Dental nurse lies about convictions for theft.(GDC’s Professional Conduct Committee removes her from register)
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Things to look out for
• eGDC• Revalidation
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eGDC
• Contact Details.• Direct Debits.• Renewal Payments.• CPD.• Annual Practising Certificate.
www.gdc-uk.net/eGDC/
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Revalidation
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Contact us
• www.gdc-uk.org(There is a Welsh link on our website)
Or
• Call our Customer Advice and Information Team on 0845 222 4141, Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
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