Serenidade Bela Do Nascimento Fernandes
Introduction
Serenidade Bela Do Nascimento Fernandes is a UK dental nurse who was suspended from the GDC register for four months on 2 April 2026, after a Professional Conduct Committee found her fitness to practise impaired by a criminal conviction and by misconduct: she was convicted in 2023 of assaulting two police officers, and then failed to tell the GDC about either the charge or the conviction. She admitted all charges, and the committee directed an immediate suspension order with a review before the order ends .
Background Information
The convictions were returned on 14 February 2023 at Manchester City Magistrates’ Court: two counts of assaulting emergency workers — police officers — by beating, arising from an incident on 22 May 2022. She was charged with the offences in October 2022. The second head of charge covered her failure to immediately inform the GDC that she had been charged and subsequently convicted, a duty that exists so the regulator can assess a registrant’s fitness while proceedings are live rather than after the fact .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Convicted and adjudicated (regulatory). The 2023 offences are criminal convictions. The failure to notify the GDC was found to amount to misconduct by a regulator applying the civil standard of proof.
The committee found her fitness to practise impaired on both limbs: by misconduct, because the failure to inform undermined the GDC’s ability to regulate effectively, and by conviction. On insight, it found the record thin — she had not informed her current employer of the proceedings, a fact the committee treated as evidence that insight was limited rather than developing .
The sanction was a four-month suspension with a review, in force immediately. In mitigation the committee credited a history of good character, demonstrated remorse and an apology, steps taken to prevent a repetition of the behaviour that led to the conviction, personal circumstances the tribunal described as challenging, and the absence of any repeat of the criminal behaviour. Against that, it set the significant delay in informing the GDC of the charge and the conviction, her lack of insight, and what it called a disregard for the GDC and the systems for regulating dental professionals .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The concrete consequence is the suspension, which took effect on 8 May 2026 after the appeal period, and the standing interruption of her registration that comes with it. The case is recorded in MedicWatch’s listing of dental professionals suspended in 2026 .
No employer statement or wider public comment from Fernandes appears in the fetched record beyond the determination itself. The shape of the case — a criminal matter the regulator learned of late — is the same pattern the GDC treats as aggravating in its own right: the conviction was one problem, but the months of silence around it were the misconduct .
Current Status
Fernandes remains suspended. At a review hearing on 5 August 2026 the Professional Conduct Committee extended the suspension by a further four months, with a further review before the new order ends; the published record of that hearing is an outcome summary only and does not set out charges or findings of fact .
The extension means the committee was not persuaded, at the first review, that the concerns behind the original order had been resolved. The decision was recorded as within the appeal period, so the exact date the second order takes full effect depends on whether an appeal is lodged .
Impact on Their Career/Life
Fernandes’s case is a two-stage failure with a single thread. The assault convictions put her registration at risk; the decision to say nothing to the GDC — from charge in October 2022 through conviction in February 2023 — turned a difficult personal episode into a finding of misconduct, because the regulator’s ability to act depends on registrants telling it things it cannot otherwise know. The immediate suspension, and the extension that followed at the August review, mean the silence has now cost her roughly a year of practice and a review cycle still ahead of her .