Approval of GP trainers

The GMC is required by the Medical Act, 1983 to approve GP trainers. To do this, we need to receive relevant information on GP trainer posts which need approval, re-approval or withdrawal by deaneries.

Deaneries are required to update their GP trainer data with the GMC through the web portal GMC Connect on a quarterly basis. If there are no approvals to report for a particular quarter then deaneries are required to email quality@gmc-uk.org confirming this.

We advise deaneries to continue their usual quality management processes and re-selection of GP trainers to ensure the standards are maintained. We will quality assure this via the Quality Improvement Framework.

Please find the current list of GP Trainers (pdf) by deanery (last updated January 2013).

Scheduled updates of the GP trainers by deanery data will be the end of December 2012, March 2013, June 2013 and September 2013.

Recognition of trainers

The GMC has published plans for postgraduate deans and medical schools to recognise non-GP trainers - see Recognition and approval of trainers for more information.