For UK doctors and healthcare professionals

Join your peers in a verified medical community

Some conversations are better with people who understand your working life. Connect with fellow healthcare professionals in the UK and around the world, share experiences and explore paid medical research opportunities—all with a free Sermo account.

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Your Community

Different roles. Shared experiences. A place for you.

From busy clinics and ward rounds to the next step in your career, there’s plenty to talk about beyond the working day.

Sermo brings healthcare professionals together to exchange perspectives, ask questions, and support one another. Our four dedicated communities serve doctors, nurses, advanced practice providers, and pharmacists, with opportunities to connect, earn, learn, and thrive.

Other healthcare professionals are welcome to join and may qualify for paid survey opportunities.

Connect

Find colleagues who understand the conversation

Discuss the clinical questions, professional challenges, and everyday experiences that come with working in healthcare.

Compare perspectives with UK colleagues on NHS and private practice, or hear how peers worldwide approach similar challenges. Share your experience, ask for another perspective, or join a conversation that interests you.

Connect With Peers
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Earn

Get paid for the expertise you use every day

Your experience can help inform healthcare research. Sermo connects HCPs with paid medical surveys and research opportunities relevant to their professional background.

Opportunities depend on your profession, specialty, location, and each study’s eligibility requirements. Invitations and earnings vary.

Earn for Your Expertise
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Learn

Bring a fresh perspective to your practice

Stay up to date on healthcare developments through educational content, webinars, and conversations with your peers.

Explore topics that interest you, hear different approaches, and discuss what new developments could mean in day-to-day practice. From a clinical question to broader healthcare change, there’s always more to learn on Sermo.

Learn from Your Peers
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Thrive

Make room for your career—and yourself

Healthcare is demanding. Finding people who understand can make it easier to talk about what comes next.

Explore conversations about career development, professional wellbeing, finances, and life outside work. Whether you’re considering a different role, managing competing responsibilities, or looking for support, connect with peers who can share their experience.

Explore Career Growth
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“In order to be up-to-date with my medical knowledge I feel I have to constantly revise. Sermo helps me with that. I like going through the case reviews. Also posting my own is a good exercise. And then there are the surveys of course.”

Paediatrics, UK

“I have been a member of Sermo for a few long years – during this time, I made more friends, I learned a lot from clinical cases, I got up-to-date with new medical information, and of course, I made money doing surveys …a lot.”

Nephrology, Spain

“It helps a lot to solve clinical cases. I love participating in the comments as well as in the promotions. Of course I always recommend Sermo to my colleagues. Excellent platform.”

Paediatrics, Venezuela
Real-world experience

Explore what fellow doctors think about treatments

Sermo’s physician drug ratings bring together doctors’ experiences with treatments used in clinical practice.

Explore peer perspectives and contribute your own experience to help build a broader picture of how treatments perform in the real world.

Explore Physician Drug Ratings
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Sermo became my ‘2nd Medical Home’! Thanks for being always here when I get up in the mornings and obviously, thank you to the colleagues on Sermo.
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Oncology, Argentina
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JOIN 1.5M+ VERIFIED HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

Earn for your unique clinical insights and elevate your practice.

Contribute your frontline experience to medical research, access peer-driven drug and treatment reviews, and share daily knowledge—whether you work in a local surgery, community pharmacy, or hospital ward.

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Membership questions

Who can join Sermo in the UK?

Sermo is an exclusive network open to all verified healthcare professionals (HCPs) and medical students.

Is Sermo free to join?

Yes. Creating a Sermo account is free.

Can UK healthcare professionals take paid medical surveys?

Yes. Eligible UK healthcare professionals can participate in paid medical market research panels through Sermo. Each study has its own entry criteria, which may depend on your profession, clinical specialty, or workplace setting—whether you work in an NHS Trust hospital, a primary care surgery, or a community pharmacy.

Completing your profile helps Sermo match you with relevant opportunities. Please note that signing up does not guarantee survey invitations or future earnings.

Do I have to be a doctor to earn through Sermo?

No. Nurses, pharmacists, advanced practice professionals, and other healthcare professionals may be eligible for paid research opportunities, as well as doctors.

Eligibility depends on each study’s needs.

How does Sermo verify members?

Sermo checks members’ identities and professional credentials. You will be asked to provide information or documentation to confirm your identity and healthcare role.

Requirements vary by profession and country. Members must complete the required verification before receiving survey invitations.

Can I connect with healthcare professionals outside the UK?

Yes. Sermo is a global platform, so you can connect with peers in the UK and other countries.

When discussing clinical practice, remember that guidance, approved treatments, and healthcare systems vary by location.

How should I protect patient confidentiality on Sermo?

Do not share information that could identify a patient, including names, dates of birth, identifying images or recognisable combinations of details.

Follow your employer’s policies, your regulator’s guidance and applicable confidentiality requirements when discussing cases online.

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