Apply for a concession on your membership and/or training fees

We provide various concessions on your membership fee and, if applicable, training fee. These include, for example, concessions for maternity, shared parental or adoption leave, less than full time working or being a member of another UK Medical College.

You can apply for a concession on the below form.

If you currently have a concession (except for the financial hardship concession), you do not need to apply again as it is rolled over. 

Read more about how to manage your membership fees.

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Type of concession
Please select type of concession to find out more
Trial retirement concession

This trial concession offers 40% off membership fees to Ordinary members, Associate members or Fellows (international and UK) who are eligible for retirement as of 1 January 2025 and are still undertaking paid work in medical practice for 1.5 days a week or less (or 3 sessions a week or less).

Senior Members and Senior Fellows are not eligible for this concession. If you are fully retired, please apply for senior membership.

One of the scenarios below might apply to you:

  • you are of retirement age and work 1.5 days a week or less
  • you returned to paid work following retirement and work 1.5 days a week or less
  • you partially retired and continue to work 1.5 days a week or less.

This concession cannot be combined with less than full time, membership of another College or financial hardship concessions. It is a new concession that is on trial for 2025. If approved, it will take effect from the day your application was received, and we cannot backdate to when your working pattern started. The reduction will be applied to your 2025 fees only.

Please select your membership type
Other membership types are not eligible for this concession.
Please select reason you are applying for this concession
Do you work less than 1.5 days per week, or 3 sessions per week or fewer?
Less than full time working concession (UK only)

This concession provides a 25% reduction on your membership subscription and 40% reduction on your training fee (if applicable).

This concession is only available to members in the following membership types who live in the UK. Please select your membership type
Other membership types are not eligible for this concession.
Please select your working pattern
Member of another college concession

This concession provides a 25% reduction.

This concession is only available to members in the following membership types who live in the UK. Please select your membership type
Moving outside of the UK concession

This concession is available to Ordinary Members, Associate Members and Fellows who have moved outside of the UK.

You may not combine this with a concession for Membership of another UK medical college or Less than full time working.

Please select your membership type
Maternity, shared parental or adoption leave concession

We will calculate a concession to your membership subscription based on information received about your maternity, shared parental or adoption leave.

Do you intend to return to work...
Out of programme (OOPC, OOPE, OOPR, OOPT) concession

This concession is only available to paediatric trainees in the UK training programme.

OOPE does not count towards your training unless you are completing an OOPE in anaesthetics for PICM sub-specialty ('grid') training.

What kind of OOP are you doing?
You will be required to maintain your RCPCH ePortfolio throughout your OOPT.
Financial hardship concession
We will calculate a concession to your membership subscriptions based on information received.
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