Eugeniya Stefanova Radeva
Introduction
Eugeniya Stefanova Radeva is a dentist who first registered with the General Dental Council as a dental care professional in January 2010. In August 2023 a Professional Conduct Committee erased her from the register after finding that, while under an NHS condition restricting where she could practise, she treated patients at two dental practices without seeking the required approval and then told the regulator she was out of the country. The panel found the breaches misleading and dishonest. She did not attend the hearing, was not represented, and the committee noted her previous good character before directing erasure with an immediate suspension .
Background Information
The restriction came out of an NHS performance process. After complaints about her clinical treatment and professional behaviour — including an NHS clinical review that found she had poorly managed a patient’s case and recommended review of her endodontic practice — Radeva was referred to the Performers List Decision Panel, which on 29 October 2019 imposed a formal condition on her inclusion on the National Dental Performers List: “You must restrict your provision of General Dental Services to a practice/a number of named practices approved in advance by NHS England.” She complied at first, getting one practice approved in November 2019, then told NHS England on 17 December 2019 that she was “not working at the moment and out of the country, will reply when and if I come back to the UK”, following up in January 2020 that she planned to work in the UK again and would notify it on return. NHS England’s enquiry of March 2020 asking for an update went unanswered .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
What NHS England’s review established was that while she was writing those emails, Radeva was already back at work. Documentation showed a practitioner named “Miss ES Radeva” contracted at Practice 1 and claiming Units of Dental Activity from January to March 2020, and working at Practice 2 — described in the background as among practices in Devon and Torquay — between February and September 2020. Neither practice had been approved. The committee found the breach charges proved, and found misleading and dishonest conduct proved in relation to both: she knew the obligation, had complied with it once before, and offered no explanation for ignoring it at the other two practices. Applying the legal test for dishonesty, the panel concluded it was less likely she acted carelessly than that she “was aware of her obligations” and breached them anyway, conduct that “would be seen as dishonest by ordinary decent people” .
Not everything stuck, and the determination is candid about it. The most serious allegations — that Radeva failed an individual patient’s care and told her she “was being a wussy” before throwing a clipboard across the surgery — were withdrawn by the GDC after the committee refused to admit the absent patient’s statement as hearsay, ruling it would be unfair to decide such serious charges on untested evidence. The panel also acquitted her of the charge that she failed to attend a GDC-ordered health assessment, accepting there was no clear health concern and that the assessment was a supportive measure rather than an obligation. The NHS removal came separately: on 26 May 2020 the Performers List Decision Panel removed her from the national list with immediate effect and suspended her for failing to comply with the condition .
On sanction the committee found no mitigation beyond good character and listed aggravating features including dishonesty, deliberate misconduct, financial gain through the UDA claims, breach of trust, misconduct sustained over some nine months, wilful disregard of NHS England’s regulatory role, and lack of insight. It concluded her compliance could not be monitored given she had already ignored one condition, that suspension would be futile for a registrant with “harmful personality and/or professional attitudinal problems”, and that nothing short of removal from the register would protect the public or maintain confidence in the profession .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The case was heard across two listings — it was adjourned in October 2022 and re-heard in August 2023 — with the notice served overseas and received in the country where Radeva lives. She engaged with neither. The practical consequences had already landed before the GDC ruled: the performers list removal of May 2020 barred her from NHS work, and the erasure now bars all registration. MedicWatch records the erasure among dental professionals struck off in 2023 .
Current Status
Radeva’s name was removed from the dentists register, with an immediate suspension order covering the 28-day appeal period and her prior interim suspension revoked. Unless she appealed, the erasure took effect 28 days after written notification of the decision of 30 August 2023. The determination leaves her abroad, out of practice, and erased for dishonesty toward both her regulator and the NHS structure that governs where dentists may work .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure closes Radeva’s UK registration and makes a return to NHS practice impossible short of a successful appeal or restoration application. The panel’s reasoning turned on a short window — she had followed the approval process in October 2019, then within roughly two months began treating at unapproved practices — as proof the breach was knowing rather than confused. Because the condition existed to protect patients pending investigation of her clinical competence, ignoring it converted a performance concern into a finding of sustained dishonesty, the finding the committee called the central feature of the case .