Regional Liaison Service

What we do

Our Regional Liaison Service (RLS) allows us to listen and understand the needs of doctors, patients, medical students and other groups across England.

Our regional liaison advisers hold meetings and interactive sessions to explain and discuss our work, so we're in the best position to meet your needs. 

How we can help you

• We offer free interactive sessions to groups of doctors. These are to improve their understanding of our guidance and explain what happens if a doctor falls short of these. Find out more about the interactive sessions (pdf) we offer 
• Support doctors with sessions explaining revalidation
• Talk to medical students about professionalism and what will be expected of them as doctors
• Help people get involved in shaping our work through consultations and discuss changes that could affect them
• Provide a Welcome to UK Practice Programme to doctors new to medical practice in England.

Get involved 

Click on your region to find out more about your regional liaison adviser and what they’ve been doing in your area. To get involved you can contact them directly or email us at rls@gmc-uk.org

The RLA is happy to respond to general questions about the GMC however due to the nature of their role they are often out working in hospitals or with groups of GPs in the community. The speed of their response may not then be as quick as you would like.

If you need a quicker response or if your query is about a registration or a fitness to practise matter please call our Contact Centre on 0161 923 6602 (Mon to Fri - 8am to 6pm, Sat - 9am to 5pm). We also have a confidential helpline to help doctors to raise serious concerns and seek advice on patient safety when they feel they are unable to do so through their employers at local level, please call 0161 923 6399 (Mon – Fri, 9am-5pm).

Management team 

Name and role	Ian McNeill Head of the Regional Liaison Service Email: imcneill@gmc-uk.org	Jo Wren Lead Regional Liaison Adviser: South	Tista Chakravarty-Gannon Lead Regional Liaison Adviser: North
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GMC liaison leaflet

Find out more about our work in our

• GMC Liaison leaflet (pdf)
• GMC Liaison leaflet - text only version(doc)
• GMC Liaison leaflet - easy read version (pdf).

GMC liaison local support and advice postcards

Find out more about how we work with our key interest groups in England in our

• Doctors postcard (pdf)
• Patients postcard (pdf)
• Student and trainee doctor postcard (pdf)

Text only versions

• Doctors - text only version (doc)
• Patients postcard - text only version (doc)
• Students and trainee postcard - text only version (doc)

Easy read version

• Patient postcard - easy read version (pdf)

Connecting with the team

Email us at rls@gmc-uk.org or on individual regional emails listed above. 

Employer Liaison Service

The ELS seeks to transform the GMC's relationship with employers across the UK. To find out more about their work please visit the Employer Liaison service page.

Feedback

If you would like to contact us to give feedback about our work please follow the instructions on the GMC’s Comments and Complaints webpage.