Reading List

A focused list of GDC guidance, legislation and dental nurse-specific material relevant to SPF P 1.6.

• GDC - Indemnity guidance
  The GDC's main page on required indemnity or insurance before practising.
• GDC - Guidance on professional indemnity and insurance cover
  2024 guidance covering types of cover, employer arrangements, NHS or Crown indemnity, run-off cover and questions to ask about your cover.
• GDC - Standards for the Dental Team
  Professional standards that underpin personal accountability, patient protection, complaints handling and cooperation with fitness to practise processes.
• GDC - Scope of Practice
  Guidance on working within your role, maintaining competence and the implications for indemnity or practice cover.
• GDC - Developing the dental team
  Advice on team roles, support and checking that indemnity cover matches the scope of practice used in the workplace.
• GDC - Learning outcomes and behaviours
  The Safe Practitioner Framework landing page, including dental nurse outcomes and behaviours.
• GDC - Safe Practitioner Framework: Dental Nurse PDF
  The dental nurse framework that contains Professionalism learning outcome P 1.6.
• Health Care and Associated Professions (Indemnity Arrangements) Order 2014
  The statutory instrument establishing the wider professional indemnity requirement for regulated healthcare professionals.
• General Dental Council (Indemnity Arrangements) Rules 2015
  GDC rules on indemnity arrangements for dentists and dental care professionals.
• DDU - Dental nurse indemnity
  Practical guidance for dental nurses on employer cover and sources of professional support.
• BDA - Dental nurse indemnity: what you need to know
  Overview of employer policies, annual declarations and considerations for additional personal cover.