§ Baroness Gardner of Parkesasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether, for the protection of patients, they intend to make clinical indemnity insurance mandatory for dentists in professional practice; and, if so, whether they intend to make it mandatory for this cover to remain in force after dentists have ceased practising. [HL1343]
§ Baroness AndrewsThe order we will lay before Parliament this spring will make such cover compulsory. The order will give the General Dental Council the power to specify in statutory rules, which will be subject to parliamentary approval, the types of cover sufficient to provide proper protection for patients' interests.