Sir, in response to the letter My non-job (BDJ 2013; 214: 6), unfortunately I think we have entered the world of risk assessment in which reams of pointless paperwork are only for someone else to justify their existence. When the CQC was first rolled out, I distinctly remember that the representative who came to talk about CQC requirements was clearly out of her depth and was instantly swamped by the congregation. This goes to show that Dr Mackay is quite right when he says he feels suffocated by all this bureaucracy and cannot do what he is actually trained to do when an official who has probably had only weeks of training demands this and that. Surely it is the CQC who should be writing/formatting the policies and updating them, and doing the non-job stuff, for the dentist to comply with it. The CQC should have a set global policy for everyone. The CQC has a role, but I am not sure they do within dentistry; we have our own regulatory body called the GDC.

1. Sheffield