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GDC ‘at the back of the queue’ for regulatory reform

Dr. Rabeea Malik
Last updated: May 15, 2025 2:58 am
By Dr. Rabeea Malik - Licensed Doctor
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GDC ‘at the back of the queue’ for regulatory reform

The federal government has introduced plans to reform UK healthcare skilled regulators – however has excluded the Normal Dental Council (GDC).

In a ministerial assertion this week, the federal government confirmed its dedication to modernise the regulatory frameworks for the Normal Medical Council (GMC), the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Well being and Care Skilled Council.

These modifications will allow sooner, extra versatile and fewer adversarial processes for addressing considerations about healthcare professionals, serving to regulators act extra effectively to guard the general public.

The GMC believes this reform is a ‘important step in direction of creating laws that higher serves the wants of sufferers and the professionals we regulate, giving us the flexibleness to reply extra swiftly to affected person security dangers and higher help good observe’.

This comes because the GDC not too long ago printed its 2025 Costed Company Plan (CCP), detailing its workplan for the following three years. Within the CCP, GDC chief government and registrar Tom Whiting highlights the necessity for legislative reform to enhance regulation in dentistry.

He mentioned: ‘Restrictive laws generally is a barrier for regulation and dental professionals. Whereas we are going to proceed to press for legislative reform, we recognise that there’s little prospect of this within the subsequent few years. Even then, it won’t resolve the entire points confronted by the professions.

‘Subsequently, in our plans we’re driving enhancements the place we are able to inside our present laws and constraints. On the similar time, we are going to proceed to help and empower the dental crew to ship protected and efficient dental care to excessive requirements of professionalism.’

‘Outdated laws’

Whereas it welcomes the federal government’s dedication to skilled regulatory reform, Dental Safety is upset that the GDC ‘continues to be behind the queue’.

Raj Rattan is Dental Safety’s dental director. He mentioned: ‘Whereas we welcome the brand new authorities’s dedication to reforming healthcare skilled regulation, we can’t assist however be aware that successive governments haven’t prioritised substantive reform to dentistry laws.

‘This week’s announcement confirms that GDC reform is behind the queue and presumably won’t progress throughout this parliamentary time period. Now we have been calling for GDC reform for a while, as the present framework continues to restrict the regulator’s capacity to effectively perform its capabilities.

‘In our 2023 survey of 125 dental professionals who’ve been investigated by the dental regulator, 82% mentioned the method had a detrimental affect on their psychological well being. Whereas the GDC nonetheless has scope to make important enhancements, reform to their outdated laws may play a key position in additional lowering delays to health to practise processes, because it may give the regulator larger discretion to not take ahead investigations the place allegations clearly don’t require motion.’

He provides: ‘GDC reform shouldn’t be an afterthought. We urge the federal government to seek out time to ship this alongside deliberate reforms to different regulators.’

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