Philip James Johnson-Smith
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Conditions from:
15 Sep 2025
until:
12 Oct 2026
Conditions:
1. He must work with a Postgraduate Dental Dean/Director (or a nominated deputy), to formulate a Personal Development Plan, specifically designed to address the deficiencies in the following areas of his practice: communication skills, examination, diagnosis and non-operative management.
2. He must meet with the Postgraduate Dental Dean/Director (or a nominated deputy), on a regular basis to discuss his progress towards achieving the aims set out in his Personal Development Plan. The frequency of his meetings is to be set by the Postgraduate Dental Dean/Director (or a nominated deputy).
3. He must allow the GDC to exchange information about the standard of his professional performance and his progress towards achieving the aims set out in his Personal Development Plan with the Postgraduate Dental Dean/Director (or a nominated deputy), and any other person involved in his retraining and supervision.
4. At any time that he is employed, or providing dental services, which require him to be registered with the GDC; he must place himself and remain under the supervision of an educational supervisor appointed by the Postgraduate Dental Dean/Director (or a nominated deputy).
5. He must work with the professionals involved in his care, to formulate a Personal Development Plan specifically designed to assist him in returning to unrestricted dental practice in non-operative fields. He must forward a copy of his Personal Development Plan to the GDC within 2 months of the date on which these conditions become effective.
6. He must notify the GDC promptly of any professional appointment he accepts and provide the contact details of his employer or any organisation for which he is contracted to provide dental services and the Commissioning Body on whose Dental Performers List he is included or Local Health Board if in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
7. He must allow the GDC to exchange information with his employer or any organisation for which he is contracted to provide dental services, and any Postgraduate Dental Dean/Director, reporter, workplace supervisor or educational supervisor referred to in these conditions.
8. At any time he is providing dental services, which require him to be registered with the GDC, he must agree to the appointment of a reporter nominated by him and approved by the GDC. The reporter shall be a GDC registrant.
9. He must allow the reporter to provide reports to the GDC at intervals of not more than 4 months and the GDC will make these reports available to any Postgraduate Dental Dean/Director, workplace supervisor or educational Supervisor referred to in these conditions.
10. He must inform the GDC of any formal disciplinary proceedings taken against him, from the date of this determination.
11. He must inform the GDC if he applies for dental employment outside the UK.
12. At any time he is employed, or providing dental services, which require him to be registered with the GDC; he must place himself and remain under the *close supervision of a workplace supervisor nominated by him, and agreed by the GDC.
13. He must allow his workplace supervisor to provide reports to the GDC at intervals of not more than 4 months and the GDC will make these reports available to any Postgraduate Dean/Director or Educational Supervisor referred to in these conditions.
14. He must keep his professional commitments under review and limit his dental practice in accordance with his workplace supervisor’s advice.
15. He shall not engage in single-handed dental practice and shall only work at premises where another GDC registrant is working at the same time as he is working and with whom he has made personal contact before he commences treatment of patients at each session.
16. He must confine his dental practice to National Health Service posts in the following areas: Oral medicine; Dental maxillofacial radiology; Oral and maxillofacial pathology or Dental public health.
17. He must not work as a locum or undertake any out-of-hours work or on-call duties without the prior agreement of the GDC.
18. He must refrain from carrying out operative aspects of dental practice, such as restorative dentistry and oral surgery, paediatric dentistry and orthodontics.
19. He must inform within a week the following parties that his registration is subject to the conditions, listed at (1) to (18), above:
• Any organisation or person employing or contracting with him to undertake dental work
• Any locum agency or out-of-hours service he is registered with or applies to be registered with (at the time of application)
• Any prospective employer (at the time of application)
• The Commissioning Body on whose Dental Performers List he is included or seeking inclusion, or Local Health Board if in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland (at the time of application)
* Closely supervised (condition 12): 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 must always be on site and available when the registrant is working. 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 twice a week in one-to-one meetings using case-based discussions. These meetings must focus on all areas of concern identified by the conditions or undertakings. These meetings can be in person or via video conferencing.
20. He must permit the GDC to disclose the above conditions, (1) to (19), to any person requesting information about his registration status.
Registration History:
On 10 September 2025, the Health Committee imposed conditions on Mr Johnson-Smith's registration for a period of 12 months. This will be reviewed before the end of the order.
The Committee also ordered that their registration be made conditional immediately. [within appeal period]
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JOHNSON-SMITH, Philip James (283887) - Determination Document
