General Practitioners
(asked on 2nd September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is legal for practitioners who are not GMC-registered to conduct consultations with patients in the UK.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 7th September 2022
Doctors practising medicine in the United Kingdom must be registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and hold a licence to practise. However, the GMC does not legally define what constitutes a consultation, which can depend on the individual purpose of the consultation. Medical practitioners who are not registered with the GMC can, in specific contexts, legally conduct consultations with patients in the UK.