Track and manage your Continuing Professional Development online

From August all General Dental Council registrants will be able to track and submit continuing professional development returns online for the first time. Around 47,000 dental care professionals need to provide an annual declaration of continuing professional development (CPD) hours this summer – and a new section of the eGDC website aims to help.

All dental care professionals who registered with us before 30 July 2008 and paid the annual retention fee by 31 July this year will receive - along with their Annual Practicing Certificate - a letter with instructions on how they can log on to the eGDC website and fill in their annual CPD hours electronically.

Although we’re encouraging professionals to submit their hours online, alternatively they can submit a return form which will be sent out with the letter this August.  

A special telephone helpline and email advice service will go live in August to help with any questions registrants may have in filling out their paper forms or hours online.

The new online facility will allow professionals to track and record CPD hours over their five-year cycle at the click of a mouse. If they have previously submitted paper forms, they will be able to edit and add hours from their current five-year cycle online. Once they’ve entered their hours for this year, the site will tell them how many hours they have left to do.

We’re reminding registrants to keep hold of their certificates as proof of carrying out verifiable CPD. This is important as we carry out audits at the end of each five-year cycle.

The deadline for professionals to submit their hours is the end of September.

GDC Registration Development Manager Sarah Arnold said:

“Lots of registrants tell us that the eGDC website is very user-friendly. As well as submitting your CPD returns you can also check and update your contact details that appear on the Register, pay your annual retention fee by credit or debit card, set up a direct debit and access your annual practising certificate.”

Professionals can contact us with any questions by emailing gdcregistration@gdc-uk.org or calling our Customer Advice and Information Team on +44 (0) 845 222 414.

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For media enquiries, please contact Edward Davies on 020 7009 2755 or edavies@gdc-uk.org

Notes

• Only dental care professionals who registered with us before 30 July 2008 have to submit annual returns this August.
• Dental care professionals who registered with the GDC on or after 31 July won’t have to fill in a return form until August 2010.