As many as 900 dental care professionals (DCPs) could be at risk of removal from the register after they failed to make a compliant CPD statement to dental regulator the General Dental Council (GDC), it has emerged.

All DCPs on the 2013-18 CPD cycle, which ended on 31 July 2018, were required to make a compliant CPD statement by 28 August 2018, but the GDC has revealed that after the deadline had passed, there were nearly 900 non-compliant DCPs whom the regulator was still trying to contact.

The BDA said it was encouraging DCPs and dental practices to check urgently if they or their staff members reached the end of their CPD cycle this summer and, if so, that they had made their CPD end-of-cycle statement.

Non-compliant DCPs were likely to be taken off the register in the next few weeks if they did not take further action, warned the trade union, and if they continued to work in the practice under such circumstances, this would effectively be illegal practice with additional possible future consequences.

The GDC said it was due to write to all those who had not made a statement and anyone who had made a non-compliant CPD statement to explain the options available for those who wished to remain on the register.

More information is available at www.gdc-uk.org/professionals/cpd.