Dental Professionals Hearings Service determination — substantive hearing
Suspension (suspended from practice) — 9 months
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A suspension is a fixed-term pause on the right to practise. The practitioner cannot work in the regulated profession during the suspension. At the end of the period the suspension may be extended, replaced with another sanction, or lifted on review.
Concerning Jenna Boden, dental nurse (General Dental Council 294479).
Decision date: 16 April 2026 · Hearing started 7 April 2026 and ended 16 April 2026
In plain English
The GDC tribunal decided that Ms Boden's fitness to practise as a dental nurse is impaired by misconduct. The Professional Conduct Committee found that, in 2023, she falsified entries in her dental sedation training workbook, used real patient information she should not have had, and recorded clinical skills she had not actually been observed performing. The Committee found her conduct was dishonest, misleading and lacked integrity. It suspended her registration for 9 months, with a review before the order ends, and ordered immediate suspension to cover the 28-day appeal period.
Charges
The GDC alleged that, between April and July 2023, while completing the NEBDN "ROC Dental Sedation Nursing" workbook, Ms Boden falsified witness assessment forms and case studies for intravenous sedation, IV recovery and inhalation sedation; recorded that she had been directly observed for a range of clinical skills she had not performed; included another registrant's initials and purported feedback to suggest verification; and used real patient information obtained from that registrant to populate her coursework. Charge 14 was withdrawn. The conduct was alleged to be misleading, dishonest and lacking in integrity, and to amount to misconduct.
Findings
The Committee found heads of charge 1-13 admitted and proved and head 15 (misleading, dishonest and lacking in integrity) proved. Applying Ivey, the Committee was satisfied Ms Boden knew the workbook entries were false and that an ordinary decent person would regard the conduct as dishonest. It found the conduct amounted to serious misconduct involving deliberate falsification of clinical training records and misuse of real patient information, and that her fitness to practise was currently impaired on both public protection and public interest grounds, with insight and remediation still developing.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Difficult working environment with a blame culture; testimonials; no previous fitness to practise history; evidence of some insight and remorse; evidence of some remediation; no direct financial gain.
Aggravating factors
Repeated course of misconduct sustained over a period of several months; personal gain in relation to obtaining a professional qualification.
Source
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