Published 11 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2363
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All doctors practising in the UK will need licence by 16 November

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All doctors will need a licence to practise medicine in the United Kingdom from November 16, the General Medical Council announced this week.

From that date it will no longer be enough for doctors just to be registered with the General Medical Council before they undertake any form of practice, whether privately or in the NHS, full time or part time, employed or self employed. They will need a licence as well.

The GMC has been contacting all 225 000 doctors on the medical register since April to ask them if they want to apply for a licence. They will need a licence to undertake any activities for which the law requires them to be registered, including holding an NHS post, writing prescriptions, and signing cremation certificates.

Academics or researchers who don’t practise will not need a licence but can choose to continue being registered without being licensed.

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