DT News - UK - GDC publishes first results from fitness to practise analysis

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Wed. 8 November 2017

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LONDON, UK: Dentists who are male and have an Asian background are more likely to be investigated by the General Dental Council (GDC), an independent analysis of the regulator’s fitness to practise (FtP) data has suggested. It also found that foreign dentists who registered by taking its Overseas Registration Exam were less likely to be involved in an FtP case than their counterparts from the European Economic Area region.

In fact, dentists from that area were over-represented in FtP proceedings, according to the data.

The analysis commissioned by the GDC is the first to examine data from its FtP process in depth and is part of the organisation’s ongoing efforts to reform dental regulation. Although the findings do not necessarily reflect the actual situation owing to gaps in the information-gathering process, the regulator said it is planning to share them with its partners in order to help transform internal processes and policies, like the development of new materials to ease the transition of dentists who were trained abroad into UK dentistry.

They will also be used for a state of the nation report that is anticipated to be released in 2019, the GDC added.

According to the Professional Standards Authority, the regulator opened 250 cases in 2015/2016 that met FtP criteria.

“This is a major step towards improving our use of data and intelligence to inform upstream regulation initiatives—to improve patient protection, ensure the public maintains confidence in dental services and to better support professionals,” explained the GDC’s Executive Director of Fitness to Practise, Jonathan Green. “We made a commitment within Shifting the balance to use data and intelligence to inform our approach to regulation and this statistical analysis of our fitness to practise data is one of the ways we are working to fulfil this.”

“We have already started to use the findings to feed into our ongoing work to deliver our commitments,” he also said.

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