Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice

Contact us

General enquiries, help and advice

Do you need to contact us?

Doctors can quickly and easily perform a number of common tasks through GMC Online, including:

Printing a fees receipt
Printing a certificate of proof of entry on the Register (PRE)
Paying the annual retention fee
Setting up a Direct Debit to collect the annual retention fee
Setting e-communications preference
Updating contact details
Updating address

For more information on GMC Online services, see our GMC Online information page.

If you still need to contact us

Doctors, employers and members of the public can contact us about:

applying for registration
specialist and GP certification
current registration status
a doctor's fitness to practise
advising us of changes in personal details (we can only accept requests to change a doctor's details directly from the doctor)
making an appointment to visit us
general GMC enquiries

Please call our contact centre. The contact centre is open:

Monday to Friday - 8am to 6pm
Saturdays - 9am to 5pm

Inside the UK: 0161 923 6602
Outside the UK: +44 161 923 6602

Alteratively, you can contact us:

by using our Online webform (opens in a new window)
by email: gmc@gmc-uk.org (opens in a new window).

Comments and complaints

Before contacting our complaints team, you should first try to resolve your complaint with the person or team you have been dealing with. You can find GMC team contact details below.

If you are unable to resolve your complaint with the person or team you have been dealing with, you can find out how to escalate your complaint in our Comments and complaints section.