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The GMC welcomes the decision of the High Court, in a judgment handed down today, to dismiss on all three grounds a judicial review claim brought by the British Medical Association (BMA). In the claim they had challenged our decision to apply our core professional standards – Good medical practice – to doctors, physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) and our use of the term "medical professionals" within this guidance.

The General Medical Council has submitted its response to Professor Gillian Leng’s independent review of the physician associate and anaesthesia associate professions in England.

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.