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1. You must provide the GDC, within 7 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 7 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 7 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 at work. 3. You must inform the GDC within 7 days from the date of application, if you apply for dental employment outside the UK. 4. You must inform the GDC, within 7 days of these conditions taking effect, if you are registered with any overseas regulator (or equivalent authority) or within 7 days of making an application for registration with any overseas regulator or equivalent authority. 5. At any time you are employed, or providing dental services, which require you to be registered with the GDC, you must place yourself and remain under the close supervision* of a workplace supervisor nominated by you and agreed by the GDC. The workplace supervisor shall be a GDC registrant in the same category of the register as the registrant or higher. 6. You must not start or restart work until your workplace supervisor has been approved by the GDC. 7. You must present the workplace supervisor with a copy of this determination. You must provide written evidence to the GDC of having done so within 7 days of the workplace supervisor being approved. 8. You must maintain logs of the following: • Clinical examination and record keeping; • Assessment, diagnosis and management of periodontal disease and caries; • Assessment of risk of periodontal disease, caries and endodontics; • Consultation with patients including discussion of risk/benefits; • Treatment planning, and communicating treatment plans to patients; • Obtaining informed consent. 9. The logs must be signed by your workplace supervisor. 10. You must provide a copy of the logs to the GDC at intervals of not more than 3 months and 14 days prior to any review hearing, or alternatively confirm that there have been no such cases. 11. You must carry out an audit in the following areas of your practice every 3 months: • Clinical examination and record keeping; • Assessment, diagnosis and management of periodontal disease and caries; • Assessment of risk of periodontal disease, caries and endodontics; • Consultation with patients including discussion of risk/benefits; • Treatment planning, and communicating treatment plans to patients; • Obtaining informed consent. The audit must be checked and signed by your workplace supervisor. 12. 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.

13. You must provide your workplace supervisor’s reports to the GDC at intervals of 3 months and at least 14 days prior to any review; these reports are to comment on the following: • Clinical examination and record keeping; • Assessment, diagnosis and management of periodontal disease and caries; • Assessment of risk of periodontal disease, caries and endodontics; • Consultation with patients including discussion of risk/benefits; • Treatment planning, and communicating treatment plans to patients; • Obtaining informed consent; • Full detail of the discussions between you and workplace supervisor, • A review of the logs and any action points resulting from the meetings with your supervisor. 14. You must keep your professional commitments under review and limit your dental practice in accordance with your workplace supervisor’s advice. 15. You must not work as a locum or undertake any out-of-hours work or on-call duties. 16. You must inform, within seven days, 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. • Any professional regulatory body you are registered with, or apply to be registered with (at the time of application). • Any prospective employer (at the time of application). • The commissioning body in whose Dental Performers List you are included, or seeking inclusion (at the time of application) • The NHS England regional director of public health. 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. 17. You must permit the GDC to disclose the above conditions at (1) to (16) to any person requesting information about your registration status. *Closely 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 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.