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Anita Carter
Anita Carter qualified as a Dental Surgery Assistant in 1989, studied Human Biology at the University of Hertfordshire in 2003, ...
Case examiners
Case examiners work to resolve public protection issues that are reported to us.
Case examiners review the details and reach decisions on issues about registered dental professionals, which may affect patient safety or public confidence in the professions we regulate.
Case examiners consider cases when our casework team has gathered all the relevant evidence and information, including comments by the dental professional involved. Each case is considered by two case examiners.
Case examiners decide if there is a real prospect of:
- the allegations being proved
- statutory grounds of being established
- a finding that fitness to practise is currently impaired.
Case examiners can decide to:
- adjourn the case for further information
- close the case and take no further action
- issue a letter of advice
- issue a warning
- issue a warning and direct that the warning should be published to the dental professional's entry on the Register
- ask the registrant to agree a series of undertakings
- refer the case to one of the three practice committees for a full inquiry.
Referrals for a full inquiry are made to one of three practice committees at the Dental Professionals Hearings Service. Where case examiners decide that there may be serious or immediate risks to public safety or confidence, they will refer to the Interim Orders Committee to decide if any action is needed to protect the public while an investigation takes place.
The processes and procedures that case examiners follow are set out in the Case examiners guidance manual and the Case examiners indicative outcomes guidance.
Supplementary advice for COVID-19
Supplementary advice was issued to case examiners in January 2021 about the factors to consider when assessing the impact of COVID-19 on a dental professional’s ability to deliver care.
This advice continues to apply in relevant cases.
List of case examiners
We have 12 clinical and eight lay case examiners.
Anna Molly Charters
Anna Charters is a dental hygienist who qualified in 2006 from Eastman Dental Hospital with a diploma in dental hygiene ...
Caroline Jaggard
Caroline has over 18 years’ experience as a solicitor, working in healthcare regulation in private practice for a range of ...
Clara Reid
Clara Reid graduated from Glasgow Dental School in 2016 and has since gained extensive experience working in both NHS and ...
David Brabner
David initially worked in general dental practice after graduating at Bristol University in 1983. He subsequently joined the community dental ...
Geraldine Birks
Geraldine has worked in regulation since 2009 for the GDC as an Investigating Committee Chair, Registration Assessor of EEA and ...
Gillian Seager
Gillian has over 20 years’ experience in professional regulation. Her current roles include case examiner for the General Optical Council ...
Karen Trego
Karen was a Thames Valley Police Officer where she specialised in criminal investigation. As a former Detective Superintendent Senior Investigating ...
Kishan Sheth
Kishan Sheth qualified from King’s College London Dental Institute in 2018 and works as a Restorative Dentist in South London, ...
Komal Patel
Komal Patel was appointed as an Investigating Committee dentist member in November 2014. She works part time in general practice ...
Laura Heskins
Laura Heskins is a dental hygiene therapist working part-time for a Community and Special Care Dentistry Service. She qualified from ...
Neel Panchal
Neel Panchal qualified at King’s College London Dental Institute in 2007 and has been a principal dentist at his practice ...
Niall McDermott
A qualified lawyer, the majority of Niall’s career has been spent working in operational, strategy, and policy roles for Government ...
Peter Lynn
Peter Lynn has a long background in professional healthcare regulation. He held a number of roles at the General Medical ...
Rachel Miller
Rachel Miller qualified at Newcastle Dental School in 2001. Following posts in general practice, dental access centres and clinical academia ...
Ray McAndrew
Ray McAndrew has been in clinical practice for 37 years. Ray spent nearly 15 years in England and the rest ...
Sally Peers
Sally has over 20 years’ experience in investigation and regulation, primarily within UK policing. Most recently she spent two years ...
Sanhita Subramanian
Sanhita Subramanian qualified at Liverpool Dental School in 1990. After completing vocational training she entered general practice, working in NHS ...
Tim Bailey
Tim Bailey has over 25 years’ experience in dispute resolution and investigations, specialising mainly in consumer complaints and professional conduct ...
Wayne Pearson
Wayne has over 30 years’ experience of working in consumer protection and professional services regulatory environments. His experience includes having been ...