Medical emergencies. Decontamination. Radiography. Whose certificate expires next month? Nobody knows.
Every dental professional — dentists, dental nurses, hygienists, therapists — must complete mandatory CPD to maintain their GDC registration. The GDC requires specific topics in each 5-year CPD cycle: medical emergencies (minimum 10 hours), disinfection and decontamination (minimum 5 hours), radiography and radiation protection (minimum 5 hours), plus recommended topics including legal and ethical issues, complaints handling, and oral cancer recognition. Practice owners are responsible for ensuring all registered staff in their practice are compliant. With a team of 10-20 GDC registrants across different cycle dates, tracking who needs what and by when is a genuine administrative burden. Your CPD tracker maps every team member's qualifications against GDC requirements, tracks expiry dates and cycle deadlines, and generates development plans that keep everyone registered and developing.
What Your Agent Actually Does
Your agent maps staff CPD against GDC requirements, tracks cycle deadlines, and prevents the registration crisis that comes from a lapsed certificate nobody noticed.
Maps CPD against GDC mandatory requirements
Medical emergencies (10 hours), decontamination (5 hours), radiography (5 hours) — plus recommended topics. Your agent tracks each team member's completed CPD against these requirements for their current 5-year cycle, showing exactly what's been done and what's still needed.
Tracks individual CPD cycle dates
GDC registrants have different cycle dates based on their registration date. Your agent tracks each person's cycle end date and counts backwards — ensuring mandatory topics are completed in time, not crammed into the final months.
Sends advance warnings for expiring qualifications
BLS/ILS certification expiring? Safeguarding training due for refresh? Radiation protection supervisor qualification lapsing? Your agent sends warnings with enough lead time to book the course and complete it before the expiry date — not the day the certificate lapses.
Schedules mandatory annual training
Medical emergencies, fire safety, safeguarding, infection control — certain training needs refreshing annually. Your agent schedules these across the year, distributing them to avoid a training crunch in any single month.
Generates CPD evidence portfolios
If the GDC audits your CPD compliance, you need evidence. Your agent maintains a structured CPD portfolio for each registrant — courses completed, certificates held, hours logged against mandatory categories — ready for audit at any time.
The real numbers.
| Practice manager time tracking CPD manually | £800–£1,500/year |
| Last-minute course bookings at premium rates | £300–£800/year |
| Risk of GDC registration lapse | Severe (staff cannot work without registration) |
| Realistic annual cost | £1,500–£3,000 |
| Agent build (one-off, configured to your team) | £800–£1,500 |
| Monthly running costs (hosting + AI usage) | £25–£50/month |
| GDC requirement updates | Included in first year |
| Realistic first-year total | £1,100–£2,100 |
A GDC registrant who lets their CPD lapse can't practise — and a practice owner who lets it happen faces their own regulatory questions. The problem isn't that practice owners don't care about CPD; it's that tracking 10-20 people across different cycle dates with different completion rates for different mandatory categories is genuinely complex.
Your agent makes it simple: everyone's status, visible at a glance, with warnings long before anything lapses.
Good fit / not a fit.
This works brilliantly for:
- Dental practices with 8+ GDC-registered staff members
- Practices where CPD tracking is done in spreadsheets or the practice manager's head
- Multi-site groups needing consistent CPD compliance across locations
- Practices where a training certificate has lapsed without anyone noticing
This probably isn't for you if:
- You have fewer than 5 registered staff and CPD tracking is straightforward
- You use a dedicated CPD platform (like ProDental) that you're satisfied with
- You have a dedicated HR or training coordinator who manages this full-time
Let's talk.
We'll start with your team size, how you currently track CPD, and whether anyone's had a near-miss with cycle deadlines. Usually a 10-minute conversation.
hello@nimblecroft.com