Dental Professionals Hearings Service determination — review hearing
Suspended from practice — 1 year
The regulator’s term: suspension
What does “suspended from practice” mean?
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 Alesia Ann Allen, dental nurse (General Dental Council 120529).
Decision date: 17 April 2026 · Hearing started 17 April 2026
In plain English
The GDC tribunal decided that Alesia Ann Allen's suspension as a dental nurse should be extended by a further 12 months, with a review. The Professional Conduct Committee reviewed an existing suspension order originally imposed in April 2025 following her criminal convictions. Mrs Allen has not engaged with the General Dental Council since October 2023 and provided no evidence of insight or remediation. The Committee concluded her fitness to practise remains impaired and the public must be protected.
Charges
This was a statutory review of an existing 12-month suspension order originally imposed in April 2025 by reason of conviction. In April 2023, Mrs Allen was convicted at Chelmsford Magistrates Court of Criminal Damage and had previously been convicted in February 2023 of Racially Aggravated intentional Harassment, Alarm and Distress. She self-referred the convictions to the GDC.
Findings
The Committee found that Mrs Allen's fitness to practise remains impaired by reason of her conviction, on both public protection grounds and public interest grounds. There has been no material change of circumstances since the previous hearing in April 2025: Mrs Allen has not engaged with the proceedings since October 2023, has produced no evidence of insight, remediation, remorse or apology, and has not addressed the recommendations made by the previous Committee.
Source
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