Serious concerns about the General Dental Council's performance and its direction of travel.

There should be tension between a profession and its regulator, it would be odd if it were not so, but the level of concern that has been articulated recently by some high profile commentators about that relationship has been well beyond what I would describe as tension. In this piece I attempt to contextualise my personal observations and comments on what is rapidly becoming a serious concern among those few of us who have had to deal with the profession: regulator interface at the highest level.