Dental legal experts have launched an online podcast to help dental professionals facing complaints made about them to the General Dental Council (GDC).

The podcast is the brainwave of the Dental Defence Union (DDU) and comes at a time when the number of complaints about dental professionals considered by the GDC at their early stages has increased by 20%.

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DDU dento-legal adviser Leo Briggs is interviewed for the podcast, which is available at the DDU website.

On it, he advises on what happens when a GDC letter arrives in the post saying that a complaint has been made – a scenario described on the podcast as: ‘one  of the most  alarming pieces of correspondence you can receive as a dental professional'.

He says: ‘This is particularly timely because there was a 20% increase in the number of complaints about dental professionals considered by the GDC at stage 1 of the Fitness to Practise procedures in 2008, compared to the previous year.' 



‘The good news is that 89% of complaints considered by the GDC Investigating Committee in 2008, in which the DDU in-house lawyers assisted members, didn't proceed to a Fitness to Practise hearing,' he adds.

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