eGDCPrinciple 3: Maintain trust in the profession
Act with integrity and ensure your actions maintain the trust of colleagues, patients, and the public.
Ways this is demonstrated in practice include:
- Putting patient interests at the centre of what you do, and encouraging others to do the same
- Demonstrating candour, being open and transparent in your interactions with patients, colleagues, regulators, and others
- Conducting your life both inside and outside work, including on social media (or online), in such a way that maintains your patients’ trust in you, and the public’s confidence in the dental profession. Read our case study on using social media outside of work
- Understanding your duty to inform the GDC if your fitness to practise or the fitness to practise of another registrant may be impaired, or if you are convicted of a crime or sanctioned
- Understanding the skills and expertise (scope of practice) of the whole dental team, and working with others in a way that benefits your patients
- Ensuring you have appropriate indemnity arrangements in place. Read our top tips on indeminity and insurance.