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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 or any organisation for which you are contracted to provide dental services. 2) 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). 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: a) any informal or formal disciplinary proceedings 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. 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) You must inform the GDC within seven days if you apply for employment to provide dental services outside of the UK. 7) 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. 8) You must allow the workplace supervisor to exchange information with the GDC. 9) You must not start/restart work until your proposed workplace supervisor has been approved by the GDC. 10) You must carry out audits in the following areas of your practice every three months: a) treatment planning; b) obtaining informed consent, including discussion of risks, benefits and alternative treatment options; c) radiographic practice, including grading, reporting and justification; d) periodontal screening, assessment, diagnosis and treatment; e) diagnosis and treatment of caries; f) antibiotic prescriptions, including justification; g) record keeping (throughout all stages of assessment and treatment). 11) You must provide a copy of these audits, 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. 12) 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 your compliance with these conditions generally, and particularly the areas of practice listed at Condition 10). 13) You must not carry out any locum or out of hours work. 14) You must inform, within seven days, the following parties that your registration is subject to the conditions listed at 1) to 13): a) any organisation or person employing you or who has an arrangement with you to undertake dental work; b) any professional regulatory body you are registered with, or apply to be registered with (at the time of application); c) any prospective employer (at the time of application); d) the commissioning body in whose Dental Performers List you are included, or seeking inclusion (at the time of application); e) you must forward written evidence of your compliance with this condition to the GDC within 7 days of notifying the relevant parties of your conditions.

15) You must permit the GDC to disclose the above Conditions 1) to 14) 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.