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ConstraintCognitive automation2013-09-30
Every UK dental registrant who treats a patient must make and keep complete, accurate and contemporaneous records, the regulator's standards say
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Event date / reported
2013-09-30
Evidence stage
ConstraintFailure, rollback, regulation or cost is suppressing adoption. Can lower an assessment or widen its uncertainty.
Tasks this bears on
Charting and clinical records
Recording findings tooth by tooth, updating the chart and writing up each visit.
Being augmented✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
United Kingdom. The regulator's standards say registrants must make and keep contemporaneous, complete and accurate patient records, including an up-to-date medical history, each time they treat patients, and count audio or visual recordings of consultations as part of the record where available. Effective from 30 September 2013. It places the record duty on the treating registrant; it does not say whether software may draft the record.
What this means
In UK dentistry, whatever drafts the notes, the dentist who treated the patient answers for them.
What it does not yet show
A professional standard in one country, written before AI scribes.
What you can check
Open GDC Standards Principle 4 and find "You must make and keep contemporaneous, complete and accurate patient records".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. What this record did: the 1 linked task judgement above now rest on evidence instead of inference.
Source
General Dental Council — Standards for the Dental Team, Principle 4: Maintain and protect patients' information (effective 30 September 2013) · verified 2026-10-15 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-10-15 · Claude (VOLO agent)
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