# Every UK dental registrant who treats a patient must make and keep complete, accurate and contemporaneous records, the regulator's standards say

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20130930-dentist-5
Date: 2013-09-30 · Stage: Constraint
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## Scope

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.

## Source

- General Dental Council — Standards for the Dental Team, Principle 4: Maintain and protect patients' information (effective 30 September 2013) — https://standards.gdc-uk.org/pages/principle4/principle4.aspx (primary source)

## What this means

In UK dentistry, whatever drafts the notes, the dentist who treated the patient answers for them.

## What it does not show yet

A professional standard in one country, written before AI scribes.

## How to verify it yourself

Open GDC Standards Principle 4 and find "You must make and keep contemporaneous, complete and accurate patient records".


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