As a GPST3, you are likely paying for GMC, BMA, medical indemnity, RCGP, the SCA and your CCT application.
A typical GPST3 pays £3,399 a year on these. £2,077 of it can come back from your trust and HMRC, if you keep the receipts.
Estimates from published fees for a typical full-time GPST3 passing first time. Yours might differ. Fees checked on against each body’s own fee page.
GPST3 take-home pay after tax and NHS Pension ›GPST3 tax rebate on fees, back four years ›
What you pay, receipt by receipt
Every GPST3 pays three things. The GMC charges a yearly fee to keep you registered, shown at the lower rate for doctors within five years of qualifying. The BMA charges for membership. And you pay for medical indemnity.
Together that is £1,200 a year, before the RCGP, the exam or your CCT application. You can get tax back on all three, if you claim it.
GMCreceipt.pdf
GMC annual fee
With a licence to practise
Total£481.00
✓ HMRC tax back
BMAcard statement
BMA membership
Annual subscription
Tax back on 85% of the fee
£34.92 a month
Total£419.00
✓ HMRC tax back
Then your college, exam and CCT
GPST3 has one pathway. You pay RCGP membership as a GP registrar, sit the MRCGP SCA, and apply to the GMC for your certificate of completion of training (CCT). You get tax back on the RCGP fee and the CCT application. Your trust pays back the SCA for your first two attempts.
The CCT application is a one-off GMC fee. The slip at the end adds it all up, including the three costs above.
RCGPreceipt.pdf
Membership
GP registrar
2026/27 training rate
Total£445.00
✓ HMRC tax backMRCGP SCAbooking email
Exam fee
First two attempts
Jan 2027 sitting
Total£1,238.00
✓ Your trust pays back
GPST3a typical year, with the three costs above
You pay in total£3,399
Your trust£1,238
HMRC, 40%£839
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Who pays you back
Two places pay you back, and neither does it unless you ask. Your trust pays back the SCA when you send a claim. HMRC gives tax back on the rest, including the CCT application, when you claim it.
The SCA exam, first two attempts
This covers sittings from 1 April 2026. Pay the College as normal, then claim the SCA fee from your employer. The receipt must show the fee and the sitting date. You cannot also get tax back on a fee your trust pays.
From April 2027 your trust will also pay back royal college membership and portfolio fees. Until then, you get tax back on the RCGP fee instead.
GMC, BMA, medical indemnity, RCGP and your CCT
HMRC gives back tax on these fees at your income tax rate, which the estimate sets at 40% for a GPST3. It counts 85% of the BMA fee, and the CCT application counts too.
Claim on the P87, HMRC's form for claiming tax back on work costs you pay yourself (like GMC and BMA fees). It covers this tax year and the last four. Over £2,500 in a year, use a Self Assessment tax return instead.
Claiming is easy. Proving it, a year later, is not.
Your trust wants the College receipt showing the fee and the sitting date. But six fees go out on different dates, and their receipts land in different places. By the time you need them, the paper trail has scattered.
- The SCA booking email may be the only record of the fee and sitting date your trust asks for.
- You cannot say which SCA attempt it was, and your trust pays for the first two.
- The CCT application is a one-off GMC payment, so it is easy to forget when you come to claim.
- GMC, BMA, medical indemnity and RCGP fees leave your account on different dates, with no single record.
Keep each receipt the day it arrives, and the claim is ready when you are.
Reimbsr keeps the proof from the day you pay
Nothing to remember: snap or forward each receipt when it arrives. Reimbsr reads the amount and date, works out who pays you back, and builds the claim for your trust when you are ready.
- Snap it or forward itSnap the receipt, forward the email to your own Reimbsr address, or add a drive. It reads the amount, date and claim deadline for you.
- See who pays you backEach expense is sorted into what your trust pays back and what HMRC gives tax back on, with the rule behind it. Not sure? Ask Reimbsr. It answers from published NHS and HMRC guidance, with sources, and in a grey area writes the question for you to send to medical staffing.
- Check it, then send itReimbsr builds one PDF with every line and receipt, and drafts the email to whoever approves your expenses. You check it and send it from your own email.
- Get your tax backIt fills in your P87 at the end of the tax year, on Free and Pro, so you get tax back on the fees your trust does not pay.
Doctors like you (GPST3) are typically eligible for £1,238 reimbursed and £839 back as tax relief a year.It will be free to try; you may never need to upgrade. Pro is £49.99 a year (£0.96 a week), only if it saves you more than it costs. See pricing ›
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