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1) You must notify the GDC within seven days of any professional appointment you accept and provide the contact details of your employer or any organisation for which you are contracted to provide dental services and the Commissioning Body on whose Dental Performers List you are included or Local Health Board if in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland. 2) You must provide full contact details of your employer to the GDC within seven days and allow the GDC to exchange information with your employer or any contracting body for which you provide dental services. 3) You must inform the GDC within seven days of any formal or informal disciplinary proceedings taken against you, from the date of this determination. 4) You must inform the GDC within seven days of any complaints made against you from the date of this determination. 5) You must inform the GDC within seven days from the date of application if you apply for dental employment outside the UK. 6) 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 yourself and agreed by the GDC. The workplace supervisor must be a GDC registrant in the same category of the register or higher with a minimum of five years’ experience. 7) You must not start/restart work until your proposed workplace supervisor has been approved by the GDC. 8) You must provide reports from your workplace supervisor to the GDC every three months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing. The report must address, but not be limited to: a) Treatment planning including providing written treatment plans to patients with informed consent and costings; b) Record keeping throughout all stages of assessment and treatment; c) Antimicrobial practices; d) Radiographic practices including grading and justification; e) Risks and/or benefits of treatment and any alternative options; and, f) Assessment, preparation, placement and aftercare in relation to bridges and crowns. 9) You must maintain a log detailing every case where you have undertaken the areas detailed in Condition 8. 10) You must provide a copy of this log verified by your workplace supervisor to the GDC every three months and at least 14 days prior to any review or alternatively, provide a written statement confirming that there have been no such cases during that period, also verified by your workplace supervisor. 11) You must keep your professional commitments under review and limit your dental practice in accordance with your workplace supervisor’s advice. 12) You must inform within one week the following parties that your registration is subject to the conditions, listed at 1) to 11) above, and provide evidence of this to the GDC: a) any organisation or person employing or contracting with you to undertake dental work; b) any prospective employer (at the time of application); c) The Principal Dentist and the Practice Manager at your place of work; and, d) any Commissioning Body in whose Dental Performers List you are included or seeking inclusion (at the time of application). 13) You must permit the GDC to disclose the above conditions, 1) to 12), 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 once 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.