Unlock practice benefits

GROUPCARE is our practice scheme. It's free to set up, offers savings on membership for the whole team and provides access to exclusive benefits. Any practice, or multi-site practice, can open a GROUPCARE scheme. Minimum DDU member dentist numbers apply.

Benefits of GROUPCARE

  • Up to 10% saving on membership for the whole team

  • 50% saving on dental nurse membership

  • Free health & safety advice line when all dentists are with DDU

  • Free CPD practice presentations

  • Free practice manager membership

  • Dedicated local dental liaison manager

  • Quick and easy online GROUPCARE administration

1. Free to set up. GROUPCARE is open to any practice, or multi-site practice, where half or more of dentists within the practice are members (minimum two). Excludes dentists in a training grade such as FDs, VTs and DCTs.

2. Save 10% on membership. Available to all members in the practice, or multi-site practice, when all dentists are DDU members.  Applied at individual member renewal date after the scheme set up date. 

3. Save 5% on membership. Available to all members in the practice, or multi-site practice, when more than half the dentists at the practice (minimum two) are DDU members. Applied at individual member renewal date after the scheme set up date. 

4. Dental nurses save 50% on membership. Must be permanently employed or contracted by the practice.  Applied at individual member renewal date after the scheme set up date.

5. Free membership for practice managers. Must be permanently employed or contracted by the practice. Excludes partners.

6. Free CPD practice presentations. Subject to availability.

7. Free 24-hour health and safety advice line. Available to practices, or multi-site practices, when all dentists are DDU members. Provided by Peninsula, a provider of employment law and health and safety services in the UK.

8. GROUPCARE membership. Individual members are only eligible to join one GROUPCARE scheme.

9. Membership benefits. The DDU always seeks to offer attractive benefits as part of membership and, from time to time, may add, withdraw or amend benefits at its discretion.

GROUPCARE benefits explained

Dedicated support for your practice

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Dedicated support for your practice

As a GROUPCARE practice, you will get dedicated support from one of our regional dental liaison managers. Your liaison manager can help you and your team to get the maximum benefit from group membership. They can offer support with queries such as:

• how to set up a scheme and manage it online
• getting a quote and processing a new membership application
• booking dento-legal training for both clinical and non clinical staff
• your corporate risk and potential gaps in indemnity.

Find your local liaison manager.

Frequently asked questions

Corporate membership

GROUPCARE does not provide individual or group indemnity for claims against practice owners or any associated company which employs staff and or operates clinical services. Practices (and partners) that have incorporated are liable for risks such as performance or conduct of individual staff as well as sub-contractors who don’t usually have their own professional indemnity.

We offer bespoke corporate indemnity arrangements while retaining individual professional membership for your healthcare team. As an incorporated practice owner you can turn to us if a patient makes a claim against your organisation or the employed/contracted staff who provided their care.

Whether your practice is a community interest company, limited company, limited liability partnership or social enterprise we can offer you a bespoke solution designed to leave no indemnity gaps.