GENERAL DENTAL COUNCIL CHANGES APPROACH TO SETTING FEES Leave a comment
In shifting the balance, the General Dental Council (GDC) said it wanted to develop a new approach to setting fees, which would better explain how and why funds were used, be clearer about how costs were allocated and provide more certainty about the level of fee dental professionals could expect to pay.
The policy, which sets out this new approach, saw a positive response in a public consultation earlier this year, and will be introduced in 2019.
It is based on three main principles, and these are:
- Fee levels should be primarily determined by the cost of regulating each professional group.
- The method of calculating fee levels should be clear.
- Decisions on the allocation of costs should not lead to undesirable outcomes (e.g. in the form of unacceptably high or variable costs for some groups of registrants).
There are several changes that will be introduced under these core principles.
