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Compulsory dental insurance for dentists

Submitted on Monday 21st May 2012

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

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Compulsory dental insurance for dentists

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This campaign has been launched to raise awareness of current loopholes in the law, which put dental patients at risk. There is no legal requirement in the UK for a dentist to have professional liability insurance to cover his patients if something goes wrong with the dental treatment which he provides. So a dentist can register with the General Dental Council to practise dentistry in the UK, but he does not have to demonstrate that he has made adequate insurance provision.
This means that some dentists practise in this country uninsured, and the problems only come to light when it is too late – after members of the public have been harmed and there is no-one, and no insurance, to pick up the tab.
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