Simon Charles Morgan

Introduction

Simon Charles Morgan is a UK dental technician, registered with the General Dental Council (GDC) under number 135053, who was erased from the dental register in 2025. A GDC Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct after he admitted performing clinical procedures outside the scope of a dental technician’s practice for two patients, treating them at their home addresses without a second appropriately trained care professional, accepting payment for that work and practising without adequate indemnity insurance.

Morgan admitted all nine charges, including the limbs alleging misleading conduct and dishonesty, and the committee found every charge proved on the basis of those admissions. On 29 July 2025 it ordered that his name be erased from the register and that his registration be suspended immediately.

Background Information

Dental technicians in the UK make dental devices in a laboratory, normally to a dentist’s prescription; they are not trained or registered to perform clinical procedures on patients directly, such as recording jaw registrations or fitting dentures. The GDC’s Standards for the Dental Team (2013) required honesty and integrity, appropriate indemnity insurance, and referral on when treatment was outside a registrant’s scope of practice.

Morgan had a directly relevant history. In March–April 2021 an earlier PCC found that from 29 July 2016 to 2 August 2017 he had provided full dentures to Patient A without a dentist’s or clinical dental technician’s prescription, treated her at home without an appropriately trained care professional, and worked part of that time without adequate indemnity insurance — conduct it found misleading and dishonest, suspending him for five months. At a review on 8 October 2021, satisfied that his remorse was genuine and he had shown sufficient insight, the PCC terminated the suspension with immediate effect.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. Morgan admitted every charge at the outset of the hearing and the committee found all nine proved on those admissions under Rule 17(4) of the GDC’s Fitness to Practise Rules — regulatory findings of a Professional Conduct Committee, not criminal convictions, with no charge found not proved.

The case was heard remotely on 28–29 July 2025 after the committee joined additional charges under Rule 25(2) of the GDC’s Fitness to Practise Rules, an application Morgan did not oppose.

The charges covered 10 June 2018 to 10 April 2020 and alleged that Morgan independently performed clinical procedures related to providing removable dental devices: for Patient 1, recording a jaw registration on 20 June 2018, trying in dentures on 3 July 2018 and fitting them on 12 July 2018; for Patient 2, recording a jaw registration on 20 March 2020, trying in a denture on 7 April 2020 and fitting it on 10 April 2020. He treated Patient 1 at her home between 10 June and 12 July 2018, and Patient 2 at his home between 3 March and 10 April 2020, each time without support from a second appropriately trained care professional.

He failed to tell either patient he was working outside the scope of a dental technician’s practice, and accepted payment for the out-of-scope work — from Patient 1 on 13 December 2018 and from Patient 2 at an unknown date or dates. The charges further alleged treatment without adequate indemnity insurance: his policies dated 21 June 2017–20 June 2018 and 14 December 2019–30 June 2021 did not cover work beyond the GDC’s scope of practice for a dental technician, and he had no insurance at all for the July 2018 visits to Patient 1. The committee found this conduct amounted to failures to obtain informed consent, misleading conduct and dishonesty.

The committee had regard to the clinical expert report of Mr Mulcahy (19 July 2024), which opined that in acting outside his scope of practice the standard of care fell far below that required. It did not accept Morgan’s explanation that he had been acting in the patients’ best interests, found his actions placed both patients at risk of harm, and noted that the out-of-scope treatment of Patient 2 in March–April 2020 came while he knew the GDC was investigating him — within months of the assurances he had given the previous PCC.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The committee determined that the facts found proved at charges 1 to 9 amounted to misconduct and that Morgan’s fitness to practise was currently impaired. It found he breached Principle 1 of the Standards for the Dental Team — honesty and integrity, and holding appropriate indemnity insurance — together with the standard on referring patients when treatment is outside scope of practice, and the GDC’s guidance on indemnity (2016) and scope of practice (2013). Applying the four limbs in CHRE v NMC and Paula Grant, it concluded that all four were met.

In aggravation it cited the risk of harm to the patients, dishonesty involving financial gain, a persistent lack of insight, wilful disregard of the scope of practice guidance and his previous fitness to practise history; in mitigation, his apology and full admissions. It noted no evidence of the recent continuing professional development he claimed — the latest certificates dated from May 2021 — and concluded he was liable to repeat his clinical failings and dishonesty and continued to pose a risk to the public. Rejecting his counsel’s case for a 12-month suspension, it found the findings, including dishonesty, connote a “fundamental disregard and disdain for the regulatory process”.

Current Status

On 29 July 2025 the committee directed that Morgan’s name be erased from the GDC register and made an immediate order of suspension under section 36(U) of the Dentists Act 1984. Unless he exercises his right of appeal, the erasure direction replaces the immediate suspension at the expiry of the 28-day appeal period; if he appeals, the suspension remains in force pending resolution. Erasure removes a registrant from the GDC register, so Morgan may no longer practise as a registered dental technician in the UK.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends Morgan’s registration despite his apologies to the patients, the committee and the dental profession, and his statement that he “will never act in this way again” — remorse the GDC urged caution over given the repetition of the wrongdoing. Since June 2024 he had worked as a process worker, and two dental colleagues gave signed statements attesting to his skills as a dental technician; the committee still concluded that erasure was the only appropriate and proportionate sanction.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Simon Charles Morgan — Struck off the register,” added 5 May 2026. source
• Dental Professionals Hearings Service, “Professional Conduct Committee — hearing page, Simon Morgan, 28–29 July 2025.” source
• General Dental Council, “Public Determination — Professional Conduct Committee, Simon Morgan, 28–29 July 2025.” source