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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. 2. You must 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). 3. You must allow the GDC to exchange information with your employer or any organisation for which you are contracted to provide dental services, or any Workplace supervisor referred to in these conditions. 4. From the date that these conditions take effect, you must inform the GDC within seven 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. 5. 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. 6. At any time, you are employed to provide dental services which require you to be registered with the GDC, you must remain under the close supervision* of a Workplace Supervisor nominated by you and approved by the GDC. The Workplace Supervisor must be a GDC registered dentist with 5 years’ experience or more. 7. The workplace supervisor must always be on site and available when the registrant is working. 8. The workplace supervisor must review the registrant’s work daily 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. 9. Where the workplace supervisor is unavailable through illness or planned absence, you must not carry out the specified elements of your work unless an approved by GDC alternative workplace supervisor is in place. 10. You must not start/restart work until your proposed workplace supervisor has been approved by the GDC. 11. At any time you are treating patients, you must be supported by a GDC registered Dental Nurse. 12. You must not work as a locum or undertake any out-of-ours work or on-call duties. 13. 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 reports should cover the following areas of practice: • Clinical Record keeping; • Deficiencies in diagnosis; • Treatment plans; • Radiographic reporting • Communication with patients and colleagues; • Caries, Endodontics, Prescribing antibiotics, extractions and obtaining informed consent • GDC Standards and Patient Safety. 14. You must maintain a log of all cases which relate to the following: • Clinical Record keeping; • Deficiencies in diagnosis; • Treatment plans; • Radiographic reporting • Communication with patients and colleagues; • Caries, Endodontics, Prescribing antibiotics, extractions and obtaining informed consent • GDC Standards and Patient Safety. 15. You must provide a copy of the above logs, signed by your Workplace Supervisor, every 3 months and at least 14 days prior to any reviews. 16. 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. 17. You must present your Workplace Supervisor with a copy of this determination within 7 days of the Workplace Supervisor being approved.

18. You must provide the GDC with written evidence that you have notified your Workplace Supervisor/a copy of notification to your Workplace Supervisor within 7 days. 19. You must carry out additional training, before the next review, for diagnosis, record keeping and treatment planning. Evidence of this training should be provided at least 14 days before the next review. 20. You must inform, within seven days, the following parties that your registration is subject to the conditions listed at 1 to 19: i. Any organisation or person employing you or who has an arrangement with you to undertake dental work. ii. Any professional regulatory body you are registered with or apply to be registered with (at the time of application). iii. Any prospective employer (at the time of application). iv. The commissioning body in whose Dental Performers List you are included, or seeking inclusion (at the time of application). 21. You must permit the GDC to disclose the above conditions, (1) to (20), 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.