Regulating doctors, ensuring good medical practice

Applying to restore registration with a licence to practise – for doctors who have previously relinquished their registration and were granted voluntary erasure

This page is to help doctors whose status on the Register is currently ‘not registered - having relinquished registration’* and who want to apply to restore their registration with a licence to practise.

You have three months to submit your application from when you start it online. If you have not submitted your application after three months you will have to start a new one. Instructions on setting up your online account are given at the end of this guidance.

If you are restoring to provisional registration please read the important information for holders of provisional registration.

Your application will be an online application. At the end of this guidance you will be given a link to enter our secure web portal which is called GMC Online.

*You can check your status on the Register by entering your GMC reference number into the

List of Registered Medical Practitioners.

Your next steps:

  • Read this guidance (10 pages)

  • Log in, complete your application and pay your fee

  • Organise your supporting documentary evidence as outlined in the guidance

  • Send copies of your supporting documentary evidence by post or as scanned e-mail attachments

  • Visit one of our offices for an identity check

There is more information about these steps on the following pages of this guidance.

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