Dentist is struck off after her dog bites safety and hygiene inspector during visit to her clinic 

Dentist is struck off after her dog bites safety and hygiene inspector during visit to her clinic

  • Dentist struck off after her dog bites official inspecting her dental practice
  • Inspectors probed 57 safety and hygiene complaints at her East Sussex surgery 
  • Aileen Hopkins was struck off after failing to respond to ‘very serious concerns’
  • Miss Hopkins is in her 70s and has owned the South Way Surgery since 1988

A dentist has been struck off after one of her three dogs which she kept at her surgery bit an inspector’s leg.

All three were found under the reception desk as officials probed 57 complaints about safety and hygiene at the South Way Surgery in Newhaven, East Sussex.

A General Dental Council report said: ‘Two of the dogs were aggressive and staff told us that they do not like people. One of the dogs bit the inspector’s leg.’

Miss Hopkins, who is in her 70s and has owned the surgery since 1988, has been struck off after failing to respond to a series of ‘very serious concerns’. The report found she ‘had a moral compass set at self-interest before public interest’

Dentist Aileen Hopkins ‘failed to protect staff and patients from the risks of the spread of infection and injury’, it added.

Miss Hopkins, who is in her 70s and has owned the surgery since 1988, has been struck off after failing to respond to a series of ‘very serious concerns’.

The council raised 57 ‘matters requiring attention’ and stressed that there was ‘clear evidence of extraordinary carelessness and chaos’.

But the dentist dismissed the concerns – which included staff using out-of-date materials and ‘potentially hazardous’ substances and failing to change surgical gloves – as ‘nit-picky’.

Miss Hopkins also exaggerated the amount of dental activity she carried out to ‘prevent a deduction to her payments from the NHS’. 

The report found she ‘had a moral compass set at self-interest before public interest’.

All three dogs were found under the reception desk as officials probed 57 complaints about safety and hygiene at the South Way Surgery in Newhaven, East Sussex. A General Dental Council report said: ¿Two of the dogs were aggressive and staff told us that they do not like people. One of the dogs bit the inspector¿s leg.¿

All three dogs were found under the reception desk as officials probed 57 complaints about safety and hygiene at the South Way Surgery in Newhaven, East Sussex. A General Dental Council report said: ‘Two of the dogs were aggressive and staff told us that they do not like people. One of the dogs bit the inspector’s leg.’

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