General Dental Council


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General Dental Council (GDC)

a body charged with protecting the public by regulating dental professionals in the United Kingdom. It aims to protect patients and promote confidence in dental professionals. It registers qualified professionals, sets standards of dental practice and conduct, assures the quality of dental education and helps patients with complaints about a dental professional. There is a supervisory jurisdiction given to the COUNCIL FOR THE REGULATION OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.
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Preceding paragraphs confirm that 'The (General Optical) Council has contracted with the Optical Consumer Complaints Service to deal with such consumer complaints', and 'In addition the General Dental Council has established and funds a dental complaints service which provides a UK-wide complaints resolution service for private dental patients.
Complaints service is of value

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