GDC Restoration
We have experience in successfully representing dentists at restoration hearings. We will give you realistic and pragmatic advice about your application for GDC restoration, to enable you to make an informed decision about your best way forward.
If a dentist or dental professional has been erased due to GDC fitness to practise proceedings, they can apply to rejoin the register after a period of 5 years. However, this is far from being a simple administrative process.
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Applications to rejoin the GDC are made to the GDC Registrar but are considered by the Dental Professionals Hearings Service before its Professional Conduct Committee, which will consider the application at a full hearing.
At the hearing, the GDC will be legally represented by a GDC case presenter, who will inform the Committee of the reasons for the original erasure. You should expect the GDC to resist your application for restoration.
The dentist will need to address the GDC’s concerns, which led to the original erasure decision and evidence remorse, insight and remediation. They will need to provide evidence of what they have been doing since they were erased. It will also be essential to demonstrate that their professional training and development are up to date and ideally have been maintained during the period of erasure, and not just in a burst of activity in the run-up to the restoration application.
If the application for GDC restoration is unsuccessful, the dentist cannot make a fresh application for at least 12 months.
The dentist will need to address the GDC’s concerns which led to the original erasure decision and evidence remorse, insight and remediation. They will need to evidence what they have been doing since they were erased. It will also be essential to demonstrate that their professional training and development is up to date and ideally has been maintained during the period of erasure and not just in a burst of activity in the run-up to the restoration application.
If the application for GDC restoration is unsuccessful, the dentist cannot make a fresh application for at least 12 months.
Importance of legal representation in GDC Restoration
GDC restoration hearings are difficult. It is advisable to get legal advice on the merits of your application and for advice about what sort of evidence it will be necessary to collate, to demonstrate remorse, insight and remediation in your specific circumstances. Ideally, you will also be legally represented at the hearing.
We will give you realistic and pragmatic advice about your potential application for GDC restoration, to enable you to make an informed decision about whether you should proceed with the restoration application, or pause it to collate further evidence in your favour. We will also assist you in planning for the GDC restoration hearing, putting the right strategy in place, to give you the best possible prospect of successfully being restored to the GDC’s register.
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