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1. You must provide the GDC, within seven days, the contact details and arrangements for any appointment you accept or are currently undertaking which requires GDC registration and allow the GDC to exchange information with your employer or any contracting body for which you provide dental services. You must also provide the GDC, within seven days, the contact details for the commissioning body in whose Dental Performers List you are included or seeking inclusion (at the time of application). 2. From the date that these conditions take effect, you must inform the GDC within seven days of being notified of: i. any formal disciplinary action taken against you ii. any NHS investigation iii. any regulatory or enforcement action taken against you or a practice for which you are the registered provider iv. any patient complaint received about your clinical practice or conduct. 3. You must inform the GDC, within seven days of these conditions taking effect, if you are registered with any overseas regulator (or equivalent authority) or within seven days of making an application for registration with any overseas regulator or equivalent authority. 4. You must not work as a locum or undertake any out-of-hours work or on-call duties. 5. At any time you are employed to provide dental services which require you to be registered with the GDC, you must agree to the appointment of a workplace reporter nominated by you and approved by the GDC. The workplace reporter must be a GDC registered dentist in the same category of the register as you with a minimum of 5 years’ experience. The workplace reporter must work in the same practice as you. You must not start/restart work until your proposed workplace reporter has been approved by the GDC. 6. You must provide reports from your workplace reporter to the GDC every 3 months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing. In addition to addressing general compliance with the conditions, any complaints received, and any other relevant information, the report must specifically address the compliance with the conditions in relation to the chaperone requirements (as appear at conditions 9, 10 and 11) and whether any further concerns have been raised by colleagues or the chaperone(s). 7. Within seven days of these conditions taking effect, you must agree to the appointment of a chaperone or chaperones, nominated by you and approved by the GDC. You must also provide written evidence that your chaperone(s) has/have accepted the role. Your chaperone(s) must be a registered dentist or DCP. You must not start/restart work until your proposed chaperone(s) have been approved by the GDC. 8. Within seven days of these conditions taking effect, you must share a copy of these conditions with your chaperone(s) and provide written evidence to the GDC to demonstrate you have done so. 9. Except in life threatening emergencies, you must undertake all consultations with female patients or any female relatives with a chaperone present. You must not be alone with a female colleague (unless that is your chaperone) without your chaperone(s) being present. 10. You must maintain a log of all consultations with female patients which must be signed by your chaperone(s) confirming your chaperone’s presence throughout the consultation. 11. You must maintain a log detailing every case where you have undertaken a consultation with female patients in a life-threatening emergency, without your chaperone(s) present. 12. You must provide a copy of these logs to the GDC every 3 months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing. Alternatively, you must provide a statement confirming there have been no such consultations. The log or statement must be signed by your chaperone(s). 13. You must provide reports from your chaperone(s) to the GDC every 3 months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing.

14. You must ensure all colleagues are advised that they can raise any concerns about you to the workplace reporter and / or chaperone(s) to include in their report. 15. You must not engage in any contact with patients, relatives of patients and female colleagues using personal communication devices, social media or private phone numbers outside of working hours, except for communication with colleagues for administrative or logistical practice matters. 16. You must inform the following parties that your registration is subject to the conditions listed at 1 to 15 above: • Any organisation or person employing you or who has an arrangement with you to undertake dental work (within seven days). • Any professional regulatory body you are registered with (within seven days), or apply to be registered with (at the time of application). • Any prospective employer (at the time of application), or any organisation or person with whom you intend to enter into an arrangement to undertake dental work (at the time the arrangement is made). • The commissioning body in whose Dental Performers List you are included (within seven days), or seeking inclusion (at the time of application). You must forward written evidence of your compliance with this condition to the GDC within seven days of notifying the relevant parties of your conditions.