Guidance and resources
Guidance and resources on various aspects of the fitness to practise and hearings functions.
Here you can find guidance and resources that will be relevant for all parties involved in a hearing, including for witnesses.
Guidance and resources
Case Management Procedures (193.93 KB)
Procedures for the administration and scheduling of practice committee hearings.- Practice Committee (Fitness to Practise Panels) decision-making process (153.78 KB)
This infographic shows the various stages of a Practice Committee hearing before it comes to a decision. - GDC's Fitness to Practise Glossary of Terms (445.49 KB)
A glossary of terms used within the fitness to practise process when practising conditions are set for registrants, including for hearings. - Conditions Bank for the Interim Orders Committee (162.22 KB)
Provides a list and description of interim conditions that the Interim Orders Committee can place on registration. - Practice Committee Conditions Bank (445.30 KB)
A list and description of conditions a Practice Committee (Fitness to Practise Panel) can place on dental professionals at a hearing. - Interim Orders Committee Dental Professional Guidance (228.18 KB)
This guidance provides information for registrants whose case has been referred to an IOC hearing. - Guidance for the Interim Orders Committee (256.45 KB)
For panel members of the Interim Orders Committee. - Fitness to Practise Preliminary Meeting Guidance (237.50 KB)
This guidance provides information about the preliminary meetings that can take place before a hearing. - Guidance on admissions made at the preliminary stage of the fitness to practise hearings (108.20 KB)
Provides guidance on the making of admissions at the outset of a fitness to practise hearing, and the process for practice committees. - A guide for dental professionals attending a hearing
- A guide for witnesses attending a hearing
- A guide for dental professionals attending an appeal
- Information on appealing a decision following a hearing (191.77 KB)
- Practice Committees including Indicative Sanctions Guidance (559.15 KB)
- Practice Note - Remote evidence from abroad (33.84 KB)
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Appeal Guidance (170.46 KB)
Legislation relevant to a hearing
- Constitution of Committee Rules
- General Dental Council (Continuing Professional Development)(Dentists and Dental Care Professional) Rules Order of Council 2017
- The Dentists Act 1984
- General Dental Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules Order of Council 2006
- General Dental Council (Registration Appeals) Rules Order of Council 2006
- General Dental Council (Fitness to Practise) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2016