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Setting the standards: Is your role set to change?

6 mins read GDC
The General Dental Council (GDC) has begun a review of its Standards guidance and Scope of Practice. Jenny Watts, standards manager at the GDC, updates us on the progress of this review and outlines how it could bring about changes to the way dental nurses work

The General Dental Council is set to review its Standards and Scope of Practice

The General Dental Council (GDC) works hard to ensure that their approach to regulation is proportionate or no more burdensome than it needs to be, to protect patients. The approach is targeted, i.e. it is aimed at where the risks lie, so that the GDC's actions are clear to all who may be affected by them.

The GDC aims to be open, fair, transparent and accountable to all dental care professional registrants, to patients and to the wider public.

The GDC does not work in isolation and, along with other healthcare regulators, is coming under increasing pressure to improve the way they regulate in the public interest. In February 2011, the Government published a paper, Enabling Excellence, which set out some changes it wished regulators to consider.

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