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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: 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 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, at any practice, you must agree to the appointment of a workplace reporter(s) nominated by you and approved by the GDC. The workplace reporter(s) must be a GDC registered dentist in the same category of the register as you with a minimum of 5 years’ experience. The workplace reporter(s) must work in the same practice as you. You must not start/restart work until your proposed workplace reporter(s) has been approved by the GDC. 5. You must provide reports from your workplace reporter(s) to the GDC every 3 months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing. In addition to addressing general compliance with the conditions, any complaints received, and any other relevant information, the report must specifically address the compliance with the conditions in relation to the chaperone requirements and whether any further concerns have been raised by colleagues or the chaperone(s). 6. Prior to returning to work, you must agree to the appointment of a chaperone* or chaperones, nominated by you and approved by the GDC. You must also provide written evidence that your chaperone(s) has/have accepted the role. Your chaperone(s) must be a registered dentist or DCP. You must not start/restart work until your proposed chaperone(s) have been approved by the GDC 7. Within seven days of your chaperone(s) being approved, you must share a copy of these conditions with them and provide written evidence to the GDC to demonstrate you have done so. 8. Except in life threatening emergencies, you must not undertake consultations with patients or be alone with female colleagues without your chaperone(s) present. 9. You must maintain a log detailing every case where you have undertaken a consultation with patients or female colleagues in a life-threatening emergency, without your chaperone(s) present, and confirmation, signed by your chaperone(s), that they have been present for all other consultations with patients or female colleagues. 10. You must provide a copy of this log to the GDC every 3 months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing. Alternatively, you must provide a statement confirming there have been no emergency consultations in the absence of your chaperone(s). The log or statement must be signed by your chaperone(s). 11. You must provide reports from your chaperone(s) to the GDC every 3 months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing. 12. All colleagues should be advised that they can raise any concerns about you to the workplace reporter(s) and / or chaperone(s) to include in their report.

13. You must inform the following parties that your registration is subject to the conditions listed at 1 to 13 above: • Any organisation or person employing you or who has an arrangement with you to undertake dental work (within seven days). • Any professional regulatory body you are registered with (within seven days), or apply to be registered with (at the time of application). • Any locum agency or out-of-hours service you are registered with (within seven days), or apply to be registered with (at the time of application). • 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). • The commissioning body in whose Dental Performers List you are included (within seven days), or seeking inclusion (at the time of application). 14. 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.