Dentistry: Registration
(asked on 30th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of (a) the average time taken by the General Dental Council to process a new application for registration and (b) the number of applications for registration made (i) in 2022 (ii) before 2022 are yet to receive a decision.
No specific estimate has been made, as the Department does not centrally hold data on the status of applications made to join the General Dental Council’s (GDC) register. This data is held by the GDC themselves as the relevant independent regulator.
The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) is responsible for overseeing the work of the healthcare professional regulators. As part of this oversight role, the PSA carries out annual reviews of the regulators’ performance which includes registration processing times. The PSA’s most recent review of the GDC is available at the following link: