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Dear General Dental Council,

Can you then provide me with a copy of the determination from the IOC hearing from registrant Mike Mew?

Yours faithfully,

James Williams

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Freedom of Information Requests, General Dental Council

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Name: Mr James Williams

Via email: [FOI #551464 email]

18 February 2019

 

Dear Mr Williams,

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 09 February 2019 December
2018, where requested the determination from the Interim Order Committee
(IOC) hearing for Mr Michael Mew.

Your request has been considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
(the FOI Act).

We can confirm that we hold one determination document relating to an IOC
hearing held on 14 December 2018. It may be helpful if I explain that the
IOC considers whether it is necessary to make an order affecting an
individual's registration for the protection of the public or otherwise in
the public interest or in the interest of the individual concerned pending
the outcome of an inquiry by one of the Practice Committees. The IOC
conducts a risk assessment only. The IOC does not investigate the
allegations or conduct a fact-finding exercise. These functions are
reserved for the Practice Committee. As the IOC will often be considering
a matter at an early stage of the General Dental Council’s (GDC)
investigation, it may only have limited information available at the time
of the hearing. Allegations may be added to or amended prior to the matter
being determined by a Practice Committee. You may find it helpful to view
the [1]Interim Orders Guidance  for the IOC on our website for further
information.  

We are mindful of the fact that paragraph 27 of the General Dental
Council’s (GDC) [2]Disclosure and publication policy states that where no
interim order is made, the determination will not be published or appear
against the registrant’s register entry. The outcome statement “no order”
will show on the GDC website for one month. However, we are also mindful
of the fact that paragraph 82 of the disclosure and publication policy
states that any requests for information received under the FOI Act will
be reviewed on a case by case basis. Disclosure would not be automatically
refused.

As a general principle, public bodies are required to be open and
transparent. As a regulator there is also an obligation on the GDC to make
the outcome of Interim Order Committee hearing public, where as a matter
of public safety and confidence it is in the public interest to do so. At
the same time the information you have have requested is also the personal
data of the registrant (Mr Mew). As such we are required to comply with
the Data Protection Act 2018 (the “DPA”) in relation to all uses of that
data.

 

When considering whether disclosure of information is a breach of the Data
Protection Principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), Principle (a) being the most relevant, we first need to
consider whether disclosure is lawful and then whether it is fair. In the
case of special category data, we must also satisfy one of the conditions
listed in Article 9 of the GDPR.

 

We have concluded that we are able to provide you with a copy of the IOC
determination that we hold for Mr Mew, which is enclosed. We outline our
reasons for these conclusions below.

 

The IOC hearing in relation to the determination you are referring to was
held in public. There is a public interest in the GDC being accountable
for decisions to seek Interim Orders. There is also a public interest in
the public being able to view the reasoning behind the IOC decision made
on this occasion.

 

The IOC concluded that Mr Mew did not present a risk to the public or
wider public interest such that interim restrictions upon his registration
were necessary. In addition, Mr Mew has released information about the
outcome of the hearing into the public domain himself and therefore we do
not consider we would be breaching any duty of confidence by releasing
what is largely the same information in the determination document. The
content of the penultimate paragraph of the IOC determination requested
has been published (read out verbatim) by Mr Mew in a video he has posted
on You Tube (at
[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-BsQrVL... and on his
website ([4]https://orthotropics.com/gdc-outcome/).

 

In addition, Mr Mew has also published information about  the concerns
considered by the British Orthodontic Society (BOS) in its investigation,
which overlap with the concerns the BOS referred to the GDC, and which
were considered by the IOC on his website
[5]https://orthotropics.com/british-orthodo....
We are therefore of the view that we have a lawful basis for processing
(i.e. releasing into the public domain under the FOI Act) the personal
information of Mr Mew contained in the determination under Article 6(1)(e)
or 6(1)(f) and Article 9(2)(g) or 9(2)(e) of the GDPR and that we are not
breaching the principle in Article 5(1)(a) of the GDPR.

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

Grace Perry

Information Officer

Freedom of Information Team

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