Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the likely impact on NHS services of the removal, on 30 September, from the General Medical Council’s Register of retired doctors who were granted temporary emergency registration to assist with the COVID-19 response.

The General Medical Council (GMC) is the independent regulator of all medical doctors practising in the United Kingdom which sets and enforces the standards all doctors must adhere to. In order to practise medicine in the UK, doctors are required to hold registration with a licence to practise.

The Department does not hold the information requested as this is collected independently by the GMC.