Dentistry: Migrant Workers

(asked on 15th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists from overseas were registered in (a) 2022, (b) between 1 January and 7 March 2023 and (c) since 8 March 2023.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 23rd November 2023

The General Dental Council (GDC) is the independent regulator of dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs) practising in the United Kingdom and enforces the standards they must adhere to. In order to practise in the UK, dentists and DCPs are required to hold registration with the GDC.

The Department does not hold data on how many dentists and DCPs have been registered with the GDC. The GDC holds its own data on dentists and DCPs who have been registered with them. The GDC regularly publish registration reports on their website; they are available at the following link:

https://www.gdc-uk.org/about-us/what-we-do/the-registers/registration-reports

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