Updating your details on the register

This guidance tells you how to update your details on the register.

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For more information about maintain your registration, please see our after registration guidance.

1. Changing your address

It is important for you to make sure that your registered address continues to be reliable and effective throughout your professional life.

The best way to keep your address and other contact details up-to-date is to change them in our secure web portal, MyGMC, in the My Details section.

To enter MyGMC, you will need your GMC reference number and your PIN and password.

Login to MyGMC Opens in new window(opens in a new window).

If you do not have a PIN and password, please contact us.

Alternatively, you can update your registered address and other contact details using our enquiry form Opens in new window(opens in a new window).

Remember that if you do not maintain a reliable address your name may be removed from the register.

2. Changing your name

If you have changed your name (for example on marriage) and you wish to be registered in a different name to the one in which you are currently registered, please download and complete a change of name form.

The form will tell you what documents we need to see before we can change your name. Please send your completed form and documents to the address on the form. There is no fee for this application.

Download change of name form (102kb, pdf)