Chloe Jade Beckett
Introduction
Chloe Jade Beckett is a dental nurse — not to be confused with the teacher Gemma Beckett, whose case is also documented on this site — who was erased from the register by a General Dental Council Professional Conduct Committee in October 2023. The panel found she was convicted at Laganside Magistrates’ Court on 1 October 2021 of five fraud-related offences, and that for years beforehand she concealed the criminal proceedings from her regulator, including on the restoration application that put her back on the register in February 2021 while the case was pending. She did not attend the hearing; the committee proceeded in her absence .
Background Information
Beckett first registered with the GDC as a dental nurse in January 2012 and was removed that June for non-compliance with continuing professional development requirements. Her history with the regulator ran deeper: at a Professional Conduct Committee hearing in July 2015 she admitted allegations arising from May 2007 convictions for possessing Class A and Class B controlled drugs, and further findings were made about an inaccurate declaration on her 2011 registration application — conduct the earlier panel found misleading but not dishonest, accepting she had misunderstood her disclosure obligations after telling that panel she had fallen in with “the wrong crowd” and changed her life. On 19 September 2018 she was charged with the fraud offences that would lead to the 2021 convictions. She applied for restoration to the register in November 2020 .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
On 1 October 2021, following guilty pleas, Beckett was convicted at Laganside Magistrates’ Court of two counts of fraud by false representation, possession of criminal property, and two counts of possession of articles for use in fraud. Under Standard 9.3 of the Standards for the Dental Team she was obliged to inform the GDC of criminal proceedings immediately, but the committee found she told it nothing — neither when charged in 2018, nor when restored to the register on 24 February 2021, nor when convicted eight months later. Her self-referral came only on 16 March 2022, by which time she had already been convicted, with an Enhanced Disclosure certificate attached and the line “I have been meaning to report this to you since January…” .
The dishonesty finding centred on the restoration application. Asked whether she had been convicted of, cautioned for, or was under police investigation for any offence, Beckett ticked “Yes” and declared only “2005 Possession with intent to supply” — a genuine 2005 conviction, but one that obscured the live proceedings hanging over her. In February 2021 she confirmed a statement of truth that “…the details I have provided online and within this application are true and correct..”. The committee found she deliberately omitted the 2018 charging decision because she knew declaring it might sink the application, that the omission misled the GDC into restoring “a person suitable for re-registration”, and that ordinary decent people would regard the conduct as dishonest. Later, mid-hearing in October 2023, she emailed to say she had been “led astray by a man who promised her she would not get into trouble and all she had to do was open a bank account”, adding: “I truly regret taking any part in this and it has really opened my eyes to who I can and cannot trust. I really hope this won’t ruin my registration as a professional Dental Nurse, as I love my career and love working with people. I can guarantee I will never be involved in anything of the sort again.”
The panel was unmoved. It found a high risk of repetition on both the convictions and the misconduct: she did not accept full responsibility, blaming the man who duped her, and her assurances to the 2015 panel that she had changed her life were followed by the 2021 fraud convictions. Aggravating factors included the 2015 reprimand for thematically similar behaviour, financial gain through securing work as a dental nurse, a cover-up, and sustained dishonesty across multiple opportunities to disclose. Its conclusion: her behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The convictions were dealt with in the criminal courts first — the fraud offences drew guilty pleas at Laganside Magistrates’ Court — and the GDC case imposed the professional consequence on top. The committee considered conditions and suspension and rejected both: her concerns were attitudinal, not clinical, and a registrant who had already been reprimanded in 2015 for similar non-disclosure and still repeated it could not be managed by a sanction requiring her cooperation. MedicWatch records the erasure among dental professionals struck off in 2023 .
Current Status
Beckett was erased from the register with an immediate suspension order covering the 28-day appeal period. The committee’s only noted mitigation was the eventual March 2022 self-referral. Unless she appealed, the erasure took effect 28 days after deemed service of the direction, dated 3 October 2023. Her registration history — removal in 2012, restoration in 2021, erasure in 2023 — now closes with the register’s most severe outcome .
Impact on Their Career/Life
Erasure ends Beckett’s ability to work as a registered dental nurse in the UK, a career she told the panel she loved. The case’s core finding — that she kept criminal charges off a regulator application while swearing the form was true — converts an ordinary conviction into a finding of deliberate dishonesty toward the body that licenses her. With a 2015 reprimand, 2021 convictions and a 2023 erasure on the record, any future restoration application would have to overcome both the fraud findings and a documented pattern of declaring only what suited her .