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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: a. any formal disciplinary action taken against you b. any NHS investigation c. any regulatory or enforcement action taken against you or a practice for which you are the registered provider d. any patient complaint received about your clinical practice or conduct at work. 3. You must allow the GDC to exchange information with your employer or any contracting body for which you provide dental services. 4. 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. 5. At any time you are employed to provide dental services which require you to be registered with the GDC, you must remain under the supervision* of a workplace supervisor nominated by you and approved by the GDC. The workplace supervisor must be a GDC registered dentist. You must not start/restart work until your proposed workplace supervisor has been approved by the GDC. 6. You must provide reports from your workplace supervisor to the GDC every 3 months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing. The report must address three specific areas: • Your understanding of the offering of NHS options when regulations allow for it • communication with patients • obtaining informed consent 7. You must stop working immediately if your workplace supervisor directs you to do so, and you must inform the GDC within seven days of receiving this direction. 8. You must carry out an audit every three months in the following areas of your practice: • Your understanding of the offering of NHS options when regulations allow for it • communication with patients • obtaining informed consent The audit must be checked and signed by your workplace supervisor. 9. You must provide a copy of this audit to the GDC every 3 months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing or, alternatively, provide a statement, which has been counter-signed by your workplace supervisor, confirming there have been no such cases. 10. Within three months from the date these conditions take effect, you must read the GDC’s Standards for the Dental Team and provide a written reflection focusing on your conduct in relation to the issues in this case, outlining what you should have done differently, and what the ramifications of the failings identified can mean to patients, the public and the reputation of the profession. The written reflection must address the following specific concerns identified by the practice committee: • Your understanding of the offering of NHS options when regulations allow for it • communication with patients • obtaining informed consent

11. You must inform the following parties that your registration is subject to the conditions listed at 1 to 10 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 locum agency or out-of-hours service 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. *Supervised: the workplace supervisor must supervise the registrant’s day-to-day work in a way prescribed in the relevant condition or undertaking. The workplace supervisor does not need to work at the same practice as the registrant, but they must be available to provide advice or assistance if the registrant needs it. Where the workplace supervisor is unavailable through illness or planned absence, the registrant must not work, unless an approved alternative workplace supervisor is in place. The workplace supervisor must review the registrant’s work at least once a fortnight in one-to one meetings and case-based discussions. These meetings must focus on all areas of concern identified by the conditions or undertakings. These meetings should usually be in person. If this is not possible, at least one of every two fortnightly meetings must be in person