Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 23 November 2023.
Therese Coffey
Conservative, Suffolk Coastal
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.
Andrea Leadsom
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
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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