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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: a. Any formal disciplinary action 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 e. Any outcome/resolution of any complaints 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, you must remain under the close supervision* of a workplace supervisor nominated by you and approved by the GDC. The workplace supervisor must work at the same practice, be in the same category of the GDC register as you or higher with at least five years’ UK experience. You must not start or restart work until your proposed workplace supervisor has been approved by the GDC. 5. Once approved, the workplace supervisor must be provided with the determination and evidence of this being communicated should be provided to the GDC within 7 days. 6. 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 reports should address the following: • Obtaining informed consent. • Using a rubber dam during root canal treatments. • Using radiographs for monitoring purposes at appropriate intervals. • Justifying, reporting upon and grading radiographs accurately and routinely. • Recording all clinical encounters in the clinical notes. • Recording the risk of oral cancer regularly. • Recording BPE scores accurately and regularly. • Keeping accurate and complete clinical notes. • Completing root canal treatments. 7. You must carry out an audit in the following areas of your practice every three months: • Obtaining informed consent. • Using a rubber dam during root canal treatments. • Using radiographs for monitoring purposes at appropriate intervals. • Justifying, reporting upon and grading radiographs accurately and routinely. • Recording all clinical encounters in the clinical notes. • Recording the risk of oral cancer regularly. • Recording BPE scores accurately and regularly. • Keeping accurate and complete clinical notes. • Completing root canal treatments. The audit must be checked and signed by your workplace supervisor. 8. You must provide a copy of the audit referred to in Condition 7 above 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 there have been no such cases. 9. You must not work as a locum or undertake any out-of-hours work or on-call duties.

10. You must inform, within seven days, the following parties that your registration is subject to the conditions listed at 1 to 9: 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). 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. 11. You must permit the GDC to disclose the above conditions, 1 to 10, to any person requesting information about your registration status. *Closely supervised: The workplace supervisor must supervise the registrant’s day-today 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.