My designated body
This page is aimed at doctors and explains more about a doctor's designated body.
Most licensed doctors have a connection with one organisation that will provide them with a regular appraisal and help them with revalidation. This organisation is called your ‘designated body’.
Only UK organisations can be designated bodies, because the legal rules that determine this only cover the UK.
Your connection with this organisation ensures you are always:
- supported with appraisal and revalidation
- working in an environment that monitors and improves the quality of its services, regardless of how or where you practise in the UK.
It is the responsible officer of this designated body who will make a recommendation about you, usually every five years, that you are up to date, fit to practise and should be revalidated.
Find your designated body
There is a clear set of rules that determines which organisation is your designated body. For most doctors, this is quite straightforward.
We know the designated bodies for the majority of licensed doctors on the medical register. If we know yours, it will be displayed in your GMC Online account.
If we don’t know your designated body, we need you to confirm it. The following information and tools will help you find which organisation this is: