The GDC has published guidance for dentists and dental care professionals in a position of management responsibility. It expands on the GDC Standards Guidance principle that you should ‘put patients’ interests before your own or those of any colleague, organisation or business’.

Principles of management responsibility applies to dentists and dental care professionals who:

• are directors of dental bodies corporate;
• own or are responsible for running dental practices or dental laboratories;
• have a role on the management structure of dental healthcare organisations or educational establishments; and
• have responsibility for conducting clinical trials.

The guidance is available on this website.

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Notes to editors:

1. The guidance was prompted by the amendments to The Dentists Act in 2006 which:

• Enabled dental care professionals to take part in the business of dentistry and own their own practices, go into partnerships with each other or dentists, and employ other members of the dental team.
• Removed the limit of the number of dental bodies corporate.