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General Dental Council
37 Wimpole StreetLondon
W1G 8DQ
Tel: 020 7887 3800
Minicom (via type talk) 18001 020 7887 3800
Fax: 020 7224 3294
Web: www.gdc-uk.org
The General Dental Council's purpose is to protect the public by regulating dental professionals in the United Kingdom.
The GDC's aims are:
- To protect patients.
- To promote confidence in dental professionals.
- To be a the forefront of healthcare regulation.
What they do:
- They register qualified professionals.
- They set standards of dental practice and conduct.
- They assure the quality of dental education.
- They ensure professionals keep up-to-date.
- They help patients with complaints about a dental professional.
- They work to strengthen patient protection.
How they work:
- Work inclusively with others.
- Be accountable.
- Be open and accessible.
- Be professional and business like.
- Strive to ensure they promote the equality of opportunity and diversity in all that they do.
The GDC website provides information on the following.
- Registration - users can search the Dentists' Register and Rolls of Dental Auxiliaries and Specialists Lists in distinctive branches of dentistry.
- GDC Publications.
- Education - curriculum for dental undergraduates, and professional complementary to dentistry requirements for dentists for their continuing professional development.
- Conduct/Health - dealing with complaints and allegations of serious professional misconduct against dentists and dental auxiliaries.
- Press Releases.
Checked: March 2006
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