Harpreet Kaur Kundola

Introduction

Harpreet Kaur Kundola is a dental nurse and orthodontic therapist who was registered with the General Dental Council (GDC 109999). In April 2024 she was convicted at Leeds Crown Court of conspiring to pervert the course of public justice, an offence arising from events in September 2020 in which she fabricated false claims that she was receiving threatening telephone calls from the victim. She received a suspended prison sentence. In May 2026, a GDC Professional Conduct Committee found her fitness to practise impaired by that conviction, concluded that her behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration, and directed that she be erased from the register — struck off — meaning she may no longer practise as a dental care professional in the United Kingdom.

Background Information

Kundola was a registered dental nurse on the GDC register, holding registration number 109999, and also worked as an orthodontic therapist. According to the determination published by the Dental Professionals Hearings Service, between 6 and 9 September 2020 she took part in a conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice. Her part in that conspiracy involved fabricating false claims that she was receiving threatening telephone calls from the victim. The panel later found that this element of the conduct was sustained over a period of two days and that actual harm was caused to a member of the public — the victim.

She was charged with the offence on 9 December 2022. On 15 April 2024 she was convicted at the Crown Court sitting in Leeds of conspiring to pervert the course of public justice between 6 and 9 September 2020, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977. The court sentenced her to nine months’ imprisonment suspended for 18 months, together with 200 hours of unpaid work, 12 rehabilitation activity days, and a 10-year restraining order.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. Her conviction at Leeds Crown Court is a matter of court record; she admitted both facts before the GDC panel. The panel found the notification-delay charge proved as a fact but NOT misconduct — treat that element accordingly.

The GDC’s Professional Conduct Committee heard the case over three days, from 11 to 13 May 2026, and delivered its decision on 13 May 2026. Two charges were faced by Kundola as a registered dental care professional: first, the conviction itself — on 15 April 2024 at the Crown Court sitting in Leeds, for conspiring to pervert the course of public justice between 6 and 9 September 2020, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977; and second, that she failed to immediately notify the GDC that she had been charged on 9 December 2022 with conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Both facts were admitted and found proved.

The committee drew a careful distinction between the two charges. It found that her failure to notify the GDC of the criminal charge — a delay of four to five days — was not so serious as to amount to misconduct. On the conviction, however, it determined that her fitness to practise was currently impaired by reason of that conviction. It found that her insight into her offending remained limited, that it could not be confident the risk of repetition was unlikely, and that public confidence in the dental profession would be seriously undermined without a finding of impairment.

In reaching sanction, the committee weighed mitigating factors against aggravating ones. In mitigation, it noted her previous good character, with no previous convictions and no prior fitness to practise history before the GDC; positive testimonials regarding her good character and good conduct since the 2024 conviction; no evidence of repeat offending; and an apology in her written reflections, including for the harm caused to the victim. In aggravation, it cited the actual harm caused to the victim, the premeditated nature of the conduct — a conspiracy which inherently involved some level of planning — her part in it being sustained over two days, a blatant and wilful disregard of the role of the GDC and the systems regulating the professions, and the inference arising from her apparent unwillingness to plead guilty at the earliest opportunity.

Concluding that the behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration and that suspension would be insufficient, the committee directed erasure from the register and imposed an immediate suspension order covering the 28-day appeal period. The existing interim order was revoked.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The determination does not record wider media coverage, but it documents the professional consequences and the panel’s reasoning about how the case would be received. The committee was explicit that public confidence in the dental profession would be seriously undermined if no finding of impairment were made — the central public-interest dimension of the case. At the same time, the testimonials before the panel spoke positively of her character and conduct since the conviction, and the panel accepted there was no evidence of repeat offending. The case now forms part of the public record of GDC disciplinary outcomes, published through the Dental Professionals Hearings Service and recorded by independent registries such as MedicWatch.

Current Status

As of the decision dated 13 May 2026, Harpreet Kaur Kundola has been erased from the GDC register — struck off. Her registration was suspended immediately, with the immediate suspension order covering the 28-day appeal period. Erasure removes her from the register entirely: she is no longer permitted to practise the profession in the United Kingdom. An erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends her registration as a dental care professional and with it her ability to work as a dental nurse and orthodontic therapist in the UK. The panel’s findings on insight — that it remained limited — and on the risk of repetition were central to its conclusion that she could not safely remain on the register, and those findings will frame any future application for review. The committee nonetheless acknowledged personal mitigation: her previous good character, the testimonials supporting her conduct since conviction, the absence of any repeat offending, and the apology offered in her written reflections for the harm caused to the victim. The sentence imposed by the crown court — a suspended prison term, unpaid work, rehabilitation activity days, and a 10-year restraining order — remains a matter of the criminal record arising from the same events.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Harpreet Kaur Kundola — Struck off the register · 13 May 2026”, 13 May 2026.source