Question follow-through · 10984

Dentistry: Disciplinary Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of delays to fitness to practice investigations on dentists' mental health.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 24 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 28 Oct 2024
Answer: 29 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of delays to fitness to practice investigations on dentists' mental health.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2024
Answer published
No assessment has been made by the Department. The General Dental Council (GDC) is the independent regulator for dentists and dental care professionals in the United Kingdom. The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) is respons...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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