Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice

Sponsoring bodies in the UK

Each sponsor has its own scheme and applicants will have to satisfy the sponsor that they possess the knowledge, skills and experience for practising as a fully registered medical practitioner in the UK. Sponsors must be contacted directly for information about their scheme.

Please note that a core part of the sponsor’s criteria is that a doctor applying for an offer of sponsorship must have been engaged in medical practice for three out of the last five years including the most recent 12 months. Any doctor who does not meet these minimum criteria is unlikely to be able to supply sufficiently up to date evidence of their medical practice to support their application for registration and will not be issued with a Certificate of Sponsorship.

  • Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Alder Hey International Fellowship in Neonatal and Paediatric Anaesthesia
  • Atkinson Morley Department of Neurosurgery, St George's Hospital
  • College of Emergency Medicine
  • Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
  • Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford 
  • Division of Maternal Child Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School
  • ENT UK - Royal College of Surgeons
  • Imperial College, London
  • Institute of Psychiatry, London
  • Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
  • Royal College of Anaesthetists
  • Royal College of General Practitioners 
  • Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Royal College of Ophthalmologists
  • Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health
  • Royal College of Pathologists
  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
  • Royal College of Physicians of London
  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
  • Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • The UCLP International Collaborative
  • The West Midlands Workforce Deanery
  • University of Buckingham School of Medicine
  • University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Several University departments operate sponsorship schemes for doctors wishing to undertake a postgraduate degree or research project in the UK. Please contact the relevant academic heads of the departments and they will be able to advise you if they are approved sponsors for the purposes of GMC registration.