Information for employers, royal colleges and medical schools

Understand the key role you can play in making sure all doctors maintain their standards by checking they are appropriately registered.

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Search the registration status of all 280,000 doctors in the UK using our medical register.
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Royal colleges, faculties & medical schools

Information for royal colleges, faculties and medical schools

GMC Connect

We use GMC Connect to share information with royal colleges and UK medical schools to certify doctors for specialist and GP registration.
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Royal colleges and faculties

Using GMC Connect you can securely share certificates of completion of training, CESR / CEGPR combined programme notifications and recommendations with us.
Help for royal colleges and faculties

UK medical schools

We have a number of guides to help you in your role of managing data for final year students, organising ID checks and submitting information to us.
Help for UK medical schools
Employers and other organisations

Information for employers and other organisations

Employers' obligations

By law, doctors need to be registered with a licence to practise to practise medicine in the UK. As an employer, you must make sure that doctors you employ have the appropriate registration and licence for their work.
Information for employers and other organisations
Guide to employing a doctor

Effective clinical governance

See how you can assess and improve your clinical governance arrangements. We worked with others to create a guide for organisations who employ, contract or oversee the practice of doctors. 
Effective clinical governance for the medical profession

Download the register

We allow you to subscribe and download the daily updates to the register. Medical staffing officers use it to add the latest registration data to their personnel systems.
How to subscribe and download the register
Referees and verifiers

Information for referees and verifiers

Information for referees and verifiers

CESR and CEGPR applications are assessed on documentary evidence only, so we need a lot of detail on an applicants' skills and competencies. 
Guide for those helping a CESR or CEGPR application
Help for referees
Help for verifiers

GMC Online

If you're registered with us, we'll contact you using the details we hold in GMC Online (you can update these in GMC Online if you need to). Otherwise, we'll use the details the applicant has provided. 
Open GMC Online
Read our guide to GMC Online