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1. You must notify the GDC, within seven days, of any professional appointment you accept or are currently undertaking which requires GDC registration, and provide the full name and contact details of your employer. 2. You must provide the GDC, within seven days, details of any organisation for which you have a contract or arrangement to provide dental services and all the NHS regional teams/Health Boards with whom you have an arrangement, either as a contract holder or by being on their Dental Performers’ List. 3. You must allow the GDC to exchange information with your employer or any organisation for which you are contracted to provide dental services. 4. From the date these conditions take effect, you must inform the GDC within seven days of being notified of: i. any informal or formal disciplinary proceedings 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 supervision* of a workplace supervisor nominated by you and approved by the GDC. The workplace supervisor must be a GDC registrant in the same category of the register as the registrant or higher with at least five years UK experience. 7. You must allow the workplace supervisor to exchange information with the GDC. 8. You must not start/restart work until your proposed workplace supervisor has been approved by the GDC. 9. You must maintain a log detailing every case that has involved: • Alternative approaches/treatments, including explaining their risks and benefits The workplace supervisor will require a copy of this log from you every fortnight and must review the contents. The workplace supervisor will sign and date the fortnightly log if they consider the documentation to be satisfactory. 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 carry out an audit in the following areas of your practice every month. The audit must be checked and signed by your workplace supervisor: • Explaining treatment options, including their risks and benefits • Obtaining informed consent • Record keeping, including treatment planning • Radiographs, including grading and justification • Referrals • Aftercare, including responding to patient questions. 12. You must provide a copy of these audits to the GDC every three 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 that there have been no such cases. 13. You must not carry out sedation. 14. You must allow your workplace supervisor to provide reports to the GDC every three months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing. The workplace supervisor should provide information and/or feedback concerning each of the matters listed under conditions (9) and (11), commenting on whether or not work has been carried out to an adequate standard.

15. At any time you are providing dental services which require you to be registered with the GDC, you must agree to the appointment of a workplace reporter nominated by you and approved by the GDC. The workplace reporter shall be a GDC registrant in the same category of register as the registrant or higher and may be the same person as the workplace supervisor under condition (6). 16. You must allow the workplace reporter to exchange information with the GDC. 17. You must maintain a log of all financial claims submitted to the NHS under the contract that you hold, and these logs should be submitted to the GDC every three months and 14 days prior to any review hearing. The workplace reporter will require a copy of this log from you every fortnight and must review the contents. The workplace reporter will sign and date the fortnightly log if they consider the documentation to be satisfactory. 18. You must allow the workplace reporter to provide reports to the GDC every three months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing. The reports should provide information and/or feedback concerning your NHS claiming under condition (17), commenting on whether or not the claims appear to be justified and supported by the clinical records. 19. You must inform, within seven days, the following parties that your registration is subject to the conditions listed at (1) to (18): • 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). • Any locum agency or out-of-hours service you are registered with or apply to be registered with (at the time of application). • The commissioning body in whose Dental Performers List you are included, or seeking inclusion (at the time of application). • Every member of the dental team and all employees at the practice(s) where you work. They must also be informed that they should contact the workplace reporter or workplace supervisor immediately if they are concerned about your fitness to practise and/or your compliance with the conditions for the workplace reporter or workplace supervisor to include within their report(s). 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. 20. You must permit the GDC to disclose the above conditions (1) to (19) to any person requesting information about your registration status. *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 does not need to work at the same practice as the registrant, but they must be available to provide advice or assistance if the registrant needs it. 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 fortnight in one-to-one meetings and case-based discussions. These meetings must focus on all areas of concern identified by the conditions or undertakings. These meetings may be held remotely using videoconferencing or similar technology.