CPD and ARF cycles

6,286 had made compliant declarations by midnight on January 28, 2014. The General Dental Council (GDC) will now be writing to the remaining 344 registrants requesting that they submit their CPD portfolios for assessment and to verify their compliance.

CPD is a legal requirement and registrants had until midnight on January 28, 2014 to declare the hours that they had completed or they risk losing their GDC registration.

In addition, more than 39,105 dentists have successfully completed their annual registration renewals process with the GDC.

The deadline for paying their annual retention fee (ARF) was December 31, 2013 and almost 61 per cent of Dentists chose to pay by Direct Debit and 20 per cent paid using our online registrant portal eGDC.

Anyone who failed to pay on time, but still wants to work as a dentist in the UK will now have to apply to restore to the register. Being registered with the GDC is a legal requirement for dentists working in the UK.