General Medical Council

General Medical Council scores 72 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 99% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.

The register data used for this profile lists General Medical Council as a registered charity (charity number 1089278). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1089278&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.

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General Medical Council scores 72 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for General Medical Council. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 99% of General Medical Council's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 3% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at General Medical Council. General Medical Council's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 291 employees paid more than £60,000, including 76 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.

General Medical Council reported £168m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.

Filing status: late (last filing 2025-08-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

General Medical Council's registered contact address is in London (NW1 3JN). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on health.

The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. General Medical Council's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 291 employees paid more than £60,000, including 76 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.

General Medical Council reported £172m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £166m (97%), investments £2.3m (1%), other income £2.3m (1%).

The register does not record General Medical Council as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.

General Medical Council's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for acting as a trustee). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.

General Medical Council was entered on the register on 9 November 2001.

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in General Medical Council's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.

This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and General Medical Council's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.