2025, issue 30

How will the GDC's updated CPD scheme impact dentistry?

ByJohn Makin

Published21 April 2025

John Makin explores the GDC’s revised CPD guidance and the impact of the changes on dental professionals.

You need to have completed the required number of verifiable hours across the five-year cycle. But you also have to complete 10 hours of verifiable CPD across each two-year period.

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John Makin

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John Makin BDS PgDL PgCDE FHEA is head of the DDU. He qualified in Manchester in 1983 and has worked as a general dental practitioner in Lancashire and Devon before joining the DDU as a dento-legal adviser. He was involved with foundation training for many years as both a trainer and VT adviser/training programme director with the Manchester and Exeter DFT schemes.