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1. You must notify the GDC within 7 days of any post you accept and of the commissioning body on whose dental performer’s list you are included. 2. You must provide full contact details of your employer to the GDC within 7 days and allow the GDC to exchange information with your employer or any contracting body for which you provide dental services. 3. You must inform the GDC within 7 days of any formal or informal disciplinary proceedings taken against you, from the date of this determination. 4. You must inform the GDC within 7 days of any complaints made against you from the date of this determination. 5. You must inform the GDC within 7 days from the date of application if you apply for dental employment outside the UK. PRIVATE CONDITIONS 6.PRIVATE 7.PRIVATE 8.PRIVATE 9.PRIVATE 10.PRIVATE 11.PRIVATE 12.PRIVATE 13.PRIVATE Public Conditions 14. You must inform within 1 week the following parties that your registration is subject to the conditions listed at (1- 13) above, and provide evidence of this to the GDC a. any organisation or person employing or contracting with you to undertake dental work; b. any prospective employer (at the time of application); c. The Principal Dentist and the Practice Manager at your place of work; and, d. any Commissioning Body in whose Dental Performers List you are included or seeking inclusion (at the time of application). 15. You must permit the GDC to disclose the above conditions, (1-5) and (14), to any person requesting information about your registration.

The Case Examiners considered an allegation that the Registrant’s fitness to practise is impaired by reason of conviction. On 27 July 2023 the Registrant’s representatives wrote to the General Dental Council (GDC) to report that the Registrant, a dentist had been convicted of the offence of driving with excess alcohol. The GDC subsequently obtained a Police National Computer (PNC) disclosure print document and a Certificate of Conviction document, which detail that the Registrant was convicted, on 24 July 2023 of driving on 5 July 2023 after consuming alcohol which exceeded the prescribed limit. The Registrar raised the allegation that the Registrant’s fitness to practise is impaired by reason of conviction. The Case Examiners determined that there was a real prospect of the factual allegation being found proved, and a real prospect that the statutory ground of conviction would be established by a Practice Committee. The Case Examiners also considered that there is evidence to suggest that the Registrant has contravened the GDC Guidance, ‘Standards for the Dental Team’ (September 2013), namely, Standard 9.1 ‘you must ensure that your conduct, both at work and in your personal life, justifies patients’ trust in you and the public’s trust in the dental profession’. The Case Examiners further determined that, due to the nature of the conviction and the low likelihood of repetition of the Registrant’s actions, there was no real prospect of the Registrant’s current fitness to practise being found to be impaired by a Practice Committee. The Case Examiners have reminded themselves that the Registrant has been dealt with by the criminal justice system, and that it is not the Case Examiners’ role, or the purpose of the fitness to practise process, to punish the Registrant for a second time. However, to close the case without action would fail to take into account the need to declare and uphold proper standards of conduct, and the need to maintain public confidence in the dental professions. The Case Examiners have also taken into account the GDC’s ‘Case Examiner Indicative Outcomes Guidance’ (February 2018) and consider that, in this case, a warning is necessary to declare and uphold proper standards of behaviour and conduct, as well as to mark the serious impact which illegal behaviour can have on public confidence in the dental professions. Furthermore, the Case Examiners consider that publication of the warning for a period of 12 months is appropriate and proportionate in the circumstances and will ensure that a message is sent to the Registrant and to the wider profession regarding the importance of maintaining appropriate standards of behaviour. The Registrant is reminded that this warning will form part of her fitness to practise history, even after it is no longer published, and that it may need to be disclosed as required. The Case Examiners formally warn the Registrant that: • The commission of a criminal offence can have an adverse effect on the wider public interest, and this conduct should not be repeated. Any further criminal convictions will be viewed seriously and will likely call into question her fitness to practise. • She should, as required by the General Dental Council guidance ‘Standards for the Dental Team’ (September 2013), maintain appropriate standards of behaviour in her professional and personal lives. • She must inform the GDC immediately if she is subject to criminal proceedings which includes being charged with a criminal offence. • She must ensure that her understanding of her professional obligations is up to date in this regard and that she is conversant with the relevant General Dental Council publications and guidance.