List of Registered Medical Practitioners (The online Register)

This page provides information about our online Register, the List of Registered Medical Practitioners. This provides a list of doctors and their status on the Register.

You can use the List of Registered Medical Practitioners to check details of all the doctors on the GMC's register.

It gives details of:

• the doctor's reference number, name, any former name, gender
• year and place of primary medical degree
• status on the Register, including whether the doctor holds a licence to practise
• date of registration
• entry on the GP and Specialist Registers
• any publicly available fitness to practise history since 20 October 2005

A leaflet is available to help patients understand why doctors have to be registered with the General Medical Council. This explains why only those doctors who are registered with the GMC with a licence to practise may treat patients by law. Please visit our patient information page.

Informing us of a deceased Doctor

If you need to let us know that a doctor has died, to ensure we update our records accurately, please send us either a copy of the death certificate or a death certificate verification form certified by a Solicitor registered with the Law Society. You can obtain a copy of the death certificate from the relevant registry office.

List of Registered Medical Practitioners Download Service

The entire List of Registered Medical Practitioners (LRMP) is available to download on a subscription basis. Further information and data descriptions are available in our LRMP subscription service user guide and order form (386kb, pdf). Organisations may wish to download the entire register as a flat file and import this into a database. This is a useful means of adding public domain registration information to existing systems. For example, Medical Staffing Officers may find it useful to add up-to-date registration data to their personnel systems. We recommend that database developers use doctors' GMC reference numbers to match and import our data. This is a unique identifier.

The LRMP file is updated daily. We provide a full extract of the register and a "delta" file of daily updates. The files are available to download using our secure web portal. We provide the files on a subscription basis at a cost of £600 (+VAT) per year.

If you would like further information about this service, please contact the GMC's Information Policy Manager, Andrew Ledgard, by email: aledgard@gmc-uk.org

Checking historical information in the Medical Register

The Medical Register was published in book form, between 1859 and 2004. We have worked in partnership with genealogy company, ancestry.co.uk, to make the majority of this information available online. ancestry.co.uk have digitised every fourth register from 1859 to 1959. These are fully searchable and you can also view original register entries online. Please visit their website at http://www.ancestry.co.uk for further information.

If you wish to consult an original copy of the Register, most large public libraries hold copies of it. Alternatively you can contact one of the UK and Irish copyright libraries (35kb, pdf).

List of Registered Medical Practitioners

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