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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 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. At any time you are employed to provide dental services which require you to be registered with the GDC, you must remain under the direct supervision* of a workplace supervisor nominated by you and approved by the GDC. The workplace supervisor must be a GDC registered dentist with at least 5 years’ experience. You must not start/restart work until your proposed workplace supervisor has been approved by the GDC. Direct supervision is necessary only in the following procedures; a) Root Canal treatment; b) Complex and surgical extractions; c) Indirect restorations; d) Caries diagnosis; e) Prosthodontics excluding dentures; f) Treatment planning. 5. 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: a) Caries diagnosis b) Prosthodontics c) Occlusion d) Treatment planning e) Contemporaneous Record keeping f) Root Canal treatments g) Complex extractions h) Surgical extractions i) Evidence of CPD 6. 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. 7. You must carry out an audit in the following areas of your practice every 3 months: a) Caries diagnosis b) Prosthodontics c) Occlusion d) Treatment planning e) Contemporaneous Record keeping f) Root Canal treatments g) Complex extractions h) Surgical extractions i) Evidence of CPD The audit must be checked and signed by your workplace supervisor. 8. 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. 9. You must not carry out any locum or out-of-hours work, or any on-call duties. 10. You must inform the following parties that your registration is subject to the conditions listed at 1 to 9: a) Any organisation or person employing you or who has an arrangement with you to undertake dental work (within seven days). b) Any professional regulatory body you are registered with (within seven days) or apply to be registered with (at the time of application). c) 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). d) 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.

Directly Supervised: the workplace supervisor must observe the registrant’s day-to-day work, or the particular element(s) of the registrant’s work, as prescribed in the relevant condition or undertaking. The workplace supervisor must always be on site and available to directly observe the specified element(s) when the registrant is working. Where the workplace supervisor is unavailable through illness or planned absence, the registrant must not carry out the specified element(s) of their work unless an approved alternative workplace supervisor is in place. Conditions or undertakings will specify which element(s) of a registrant’s practice to observe.