Charity CASE STUDY: UNFIT TO PRACTISE?
A DENTIST in her 40s – a single mother with children – had worked in a practice for several years when it was bought by a new principal. After a few months, he
reported her to the GDC under Fitness to Prac- tise; the interim orders committee (IOC) imposed conditions on her registra- tion while the allegations were investigated, and he terminated her contract. Other dentists were reluc- tant to take her on while she
was under investigation, and apart from a Christmas job in a department store she was unemployed. After 18 months, the
IOC decided there was no case to answer and lifted the conditions on her registration. By this time, she would
have been bankrupt if it had not been for the support she received from the fund, and there is no compensation from the GDC for loss of earnings during this time.
Philip Sutcliffe has made the Benevolent Fund his focus since retirement
network and the membership’s continuous and often creative drive to raise money for others. That can include fundraising at social events to more challenging cycle mara- thons, hill-walking and 10k races. “If you bang on about
fundraising for long enough, you might remind people that when they’re drawing up their will, they might like to put a bit in our direction,” said Philip. “When bequests happen they
come like wonderful surprises. Sometimes you might get £10,000, £15,000 something like that but that would only be one a year.” From there, the branch
network builds funds towards the Ben Fund’s giving programme that includes one-off grants to meet an individual’s needs; regular grant aid to bolster a benefici- ary’s depleted income; or a short-term loan to help over a limited but difficult period.
Help is at hand Philip offered three exam- ples where the Ben Fund went to work.
“Respite care comes to mind,” he said. “We had a dentist’s widow with dementia, whose daughter had been looking
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