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Female doctors are greater in number than their male counterparts for the first time ever in the UK, the General Medical Council has announced today.

The profile of our profession is changing. When I started medical school in 1975, the year of the Sex Discrimination Act, I was one of a minority of women in my year.

We wrote to the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges about marking errors the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK made with diet 3 of the September 2023 MRCP part 2 written examination.

We wrote to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and the corresponding government ministers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. We clarified our approach to the publication of fitness to practise history for our registrants who have transitioned gender.

More than 250 physicians associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) have now been granted their registration by the General Medical Council (GMC), becoming the first regulated professionals in these fields.

Doctors who use artificial intelligence (AI) see benefits for their own efficiency and for patient care in a resource-stretched NHS and, although they recognise there are risks, they feel confident in managing them, according to a new study published by the General Medical Council (GMC) today.

An update for system leaders since regulation of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) came into effect in December 2024.

Today the High Court handed down judgment in an appeal brought by Dr Sarah Benn against the decision of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPTS) that she should be suspended from the medical register for five months on the basis that her fitness to practice was impaired through misconduct.

The General Medical Council has welcomed four new members to its governing body, the GMC Council.

The General Medical Council (GMC) has continued to meet all 18 Standards of Good Regulation following an independent performance review by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).

Winter is upon us and, with it, an increase in the volume and intensity of doctors’ workloads.

Thank you for all you and your teams have done and continue to do for patients, families, local communities, and all those receiving care as we embrace another busy winter.