Check a doctor’s registration
You can search the registration status of all 359,445 doctors in the UK.
Searching for more than one doctor?
You can enter multiple GMC numbers into the search box, just separate each number with a space or comma.
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.
Search the medical register
Please enter any of the following:
- Doctor's GMC number
- Doctor's given name
- Doctor's last name
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Royal colleges, faculties and medical schools
Information for royal colleges, faculties and medical schools
We use GMC Connect to share information with royal colleges and UK medical schools to certify doctors for specialist and GP registration.
Using GMC Connect you can securely share certificates of completion of training, CESR / CEGPR combined programme notifications and recommendations with us.
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.
Employers and other organisations
Information for employers and other organisations
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
