Our corporate strategy and costed corporate plans

Dental professionals and other stakeholders will: 

• Have an opportunity to help shape the promoting professionalism framework that will support and empower them to use their professional knowledge, skills and behaviours appropriate to the patient and circumstances. 
• Benefit from specialist training that is based on updated curricula.
• Experience an improved and effective process for being added to a specialist list.
• Be in control of their own professional development through effective lifelong learning.
• Be educated and trained to deliver safe and effective dental care to a high standard under modernised standards and learning outcomes, set out in the safe practitioner framework.
• Be able to access a modernised international registration process that continues to effectively assess the knowledge and skills required for safe practice. 

Strategic aim two: Concerns are addressed effectively and proportionately to protect the public and support professional learning 

Dental professionals, the public and other stakeholders will: 

• Find accurate and useful guidance on how to provide feedback and make a complaint about their dental care, before raising a concern with us. 
• Raise a concern with us because an investigation is a needed to ensure the public is protected, and wherever possible, has been previously considered through feedback and complaints processes operating across the sector.
• Experience fair and proportionate fitness to practise investigations and decisions.
• Have an opportunity to provide evidence and views on our reassessment of the restrictions in our legal framework, as we work to reduce the impact on those involved in fitness to practise investigations and hearings. 

Strategic aim three: Risks affecting the public’s safety and wellbeing are dealt with by the right organisations 

Our stakeholders and dental professionals will: 

• Be met with openness as we work collaboratively across the sector to address risks to public safety and wellbeing, building respect and trust in our public protection role. 
• Benefit from the insights and evidence we share on public risk.
• Be equipped to respond to current and emerging risks to the public, assured by our standards and the regulatory functions we perform. 

Strategic aim four: Dental professional regulation is efficient and effective, and adapts to the changing external environment 

Dental professionals and other stakeholders will: 

• Have a professional regulator that working to improve and operating as efficiently and effectively as possible, within current legislative and resource constraints. 
• Over the longer term, be regulated by a modernised and flexible framework, as we work with other regulators to prepare and maximise the potential of reform.
• Work in a more diverse and inclusive sector, as we continuously work to eliminate discrimination in our functions and processes, particularly in our fitness to practise investigations.
• Benefit from regulatory functions and processes that are designed and informed by data, research and evaluation.
• Be supported by GDC staff and associates who have the right knowledge and skills, and who are part of a culture focused on improving performance and adopting to changing and uncertain circumstances. 

How we will work to deliver our aims and objectives 

Our corporate strategy includes a number of underpinning or supporting strategies that set out our approach to the delivery of our corporate aims and objectives, these are: 

• Organisational efficiency: ensuring we have the staff, systems and processes we need. 
• Preventative regulation: moving more of our effort towards the prevention of harm.
• Communications and engagement: promoting understanding of our role and priorities, and involving others affected by our work in our strategic development.
• Evidence, data and research: using the data we hold effectively, and drawing on evidence to drive development and improvements in our performance.
• Equality, diversity and inclusion: fostering equality, diversity and inclusion at the GDC, across the sector, and with the public.  

Our organisational values guide how we operate, these are: 

• Fairness: we treat everyone we deal with fairly. 
• Transparency: we are open about how we work and how we reach decisions.
• Responsiveness: we listen, and we adapt to changing circumstances.
• Respect: we treat everyone with respect.  

Review our full Corporate Strategy 2023-2025. 

Details of our activities and expenditure plans