Category Archives: General Dental Council

All UK Dentists should watch this.

If you’re a dentist and not UK based, or not a dentist at all then look at the way that UK government works. This is a clip from Parliament TV featuring the House of Lords Grand Committee, discussing “Orders and regulations: General Dental Council (Fitness to Practise etc.) Order 2015”. Meeting held on January 18thContinue reading “All UK Dentists should watch this.”

Tesco v Waitrose v Lidl v Sainsbury

In his Pendlebury lecture of June 2014, the then recently installed chairman of the GDC William Moyes informed those present that, “Dentists and dental care professionals now have customers, not clients ………or, indeed, patients.”. It was nice of a government appointed non-clinician to share the official view with the profession, now who will tell theContinue reading “Tesco v Waitrose v Lidl v Sainsbury”

How badly must a regulator perform before someone intervenes, asks BDA

Please see below our response to the PSA’s annual report on healthcare regulators which was published on Friday. PR40.15 26 June 2015 How badly must a regulator perform before someone intervenes, asks BDA The British Dental Association (BDA) is concerned that the General Dental Council (GDC) has come bottom of the league in an assessmentContinue reading “How badly must a regulator perform before someone intervenes, asks BDA”

BDS (Cardiff) found to be invalid – you really couldn’t make this up.

In what I presumed to be a delayed April 1st posting UK Dental News & GDPUK have released the following story. In a media release dated 10 April 2015, the General Dental Council announced that all BDS degrees awarded by Cardiff University since 2010 are invalid and announced the measures it will be taking asContinue reading “BDS (Cardiff) found to be invalid – you really couldn’t make this up.”

An open letter to the Chief Executive of the General Dental Council – BDA

As the dust settles on the judicial review, the 2014 award for Brass Neck goes to Evlynne Gilvarry. An open letter to the Chief Executive of the General Dental Council The British Dental Association (BDA) has published an open letter to Evlynne Gilvarry, Chief Executive of the General Dental Council, following their press statement onContinue reading “An open letter to the Chief Executive of the General Dental Council – BDA”

An Open Letter to the General Dental Council – GDPUK

I try to not get too involved with dental politics on this blog – I save that for my work with the BDA and so on, but in the wake of the Judicial Review result this morning regarding the hike in Annual Retention Fee I am happy to share this. Originally posted on GDPUK. AnContinue reading “An Open Letter to the General Dental Council – GDPUK”