GDC seeks 24 dental professionals for Fitness to Practise panel

GDC Head of Adjudications, John Cullinane, said: 'There is no part of our lives that the current pandemic has not touched, and these are exceptionally worrying times for everybody. Several weeks in to the lockdown we, like many organisations, are faced with tough decisions about what work can and should resume. While all but the most urgent fitness to practise hearings are currently suspended, we know that when restrictions are lifted, we’re going to need to work through the hearings which have been delayed by all of this.

'That makes the search for new panellists, to replace those reaching the end of their term, all the more important and this is why we’ve decided to push ahead now.'

The available positions, which pay £353 plus expenses per day, are for panellists to sit on the GDC’s statutory committees which hear evidence and rule on dental professionals’ fitness to practise, following investigations.

Those with an interest need to be available for 20-25 weekdays per year (for at least a week at a time) and be able to demonstrate their ability to analyse complex information and work with sensitive issues.