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Information for Practitioners - Overview
The Dental Council seeks to ensure a dental workforce which provides safe, high quality care. In
accordance with this objective the Dental Council
- establishes recertification systems and processes to ensure that oral
health practitioners maintain competence and fitness to practise throughout their practising lives
- undertakes accreditation of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes
leading to prescribed qualifications for registration as an oral health practitioner to ensure that they meet
acceptable national and international standards
- sets the clinical, cultural and ethical standards that oral health
practitioners must adhere to
- promotes the health of oral health practitioners and develops programmes for health-impaired
practitioners to ensure a speedy return to practice while assuring public safety
Practitioners must abide by the Code of Health and Disability
Services Consumers Rights and the minimum professional standards set out in the joint codes of practice.
Complaints about practitioners should be made to the Dental Council or the Health and Disability Commissioner.
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