Medical practitioner in GB
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
The clearest priced gate in the index. Anyone may search the register of more than two hundred and seventy thousand doctors for free, and the GMC describes it as the only up-to-date publicly accessible database of everyone eligible to practise in the UK. The bulk file exists in exactly the shape RVW-5 asks for: the full register daily, delta files seven days a week, CSV over SFTP. It costs eight hundred and fifteen pounds a year plus VAT, and republishing any of it needs a second licence granted after the GMC has understood what you plan to do with it. Nothing technical is missing here. A register first printed as a book in 1859 now ships a daily machine-readable diff, and the only thing between it and tier A is a price list and a permission step.
What it publishes
| Check | Answer | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A public page per licence | Yes | Gives a reader something to look at and a checker something to archive and attest against. |
| A bulk export | Paid | Lets a consumer hold the whole list instead of fetching one licence at a time, and lets anyone hash it. |
| Machine readable | Yes | A CSV or JSON rather than a page built for a browser. Decides whether checking can be automated at all. |
| Signed | No | Makes the file impossible to forge or mirror convincingly. Nothing reaches grade A without it. |
The next step
Export the list
A page per licence is already most of the work. What is missing is the same data as one file, at a stable address, refreshed on whatever cadence the register already runs. That is tier A of RVW-5 and it moves this row to grade B.
A grade describes a register, not the authority behind it and not the quality of its supervision. An authority can run an excellent register and still sit at grade D because it is a search form.
If this row is wrong, it gets corrected with the correction published beside it. The index is useful only if it can be argued with. Tell the lab.