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Registered charity · London

General Medical Council

General Medical Council is a registered charity (number 1089278) based in London, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Professor Caroline Macewen since 2021. Latest income £172m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as GMC (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £172m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.gmc-uk.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£172m£160m
  • 2024£168m£156m
  • 2023£150m£144m
Earlier years
  • 2022£135m£134m
  • 2021£122m£122m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1A) THE OVER-ARCHING OBJECTIVE OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL IN EXERCISING THEIR FUNCTIONS IS THE PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC. (1B) THE PURSUIT BY THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THEIR OVER-ARCHING OBJECTIVE INVOLVES THE PURSUIT OF THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES:A) TO PROTECT, PROMOTE AND MAINTAIN THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF THE PUBLICB) TO PROMOTE AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE ANAESTHESIA ASSOCIATE AND PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONS, AND C) TO PROMOTE AND MAINTAIN PROPER PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND CONDUCT FOR MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THE ANAESTHESIA ASSOCIATE AND PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONS.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

3.4y median 4y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 5Other services 2Arts and leisure 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£167.5m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

5.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 6.8 in 2020

1713 from 1442 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1089278
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEDICAL ACT 1983 AS AMENDED, IN PARTICULAR BY THE MEDICAL (PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE) ACT 1995 AND THE MEDICAL ACT 1983 (AMENDMENT) ORDER 2002, AS AMENDED BY ORDER OF COUNCIL 2015 AND AS AMENDED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL 2024.
Contact on the register
0161 923 6602 · gmc@gmc-uk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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