Monitoring Report - General Chiropractic Council 2024/25

We have published our most recent report for the General Chiropractic Council (GCC).

Key statistics

• The GCC regulates chiropractors in the UK
• There were 3,993 professionals on its register (as at 30 June 2025)

Key findings and areas for improvement

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The GCC continues to perform well against our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Standard. It has carried out an impressive volume of activity for a regulator of its size. The GCC’s work on EDI is clearly recognised and welcomed by its stakeholders, some of whom mentioned starting to see evidence of positive impacts within the profession. A gap which we identified last year in the GCC’s fitness to practise guidance remains, but the GCC is working to address this through updates that will also support the implementation of its new Code of Professional Practice for registrants. We will monitor the GCC’s work to address this gap.

The Code of Professional Practice

After extensive pre-consultation work last year and a public consultation this year, the GCC published its new Code of Professional Practice, which sets the standards expected of registrants. The GCC is updating its existing guidance to support the implementation of the new Code and is also identifying topics where new guidance may help registrants to apply the standards. We will monitor the implementation of the new Code, which takes effect from 1 January 2026, and the accompanying guidance.

Fitness to Practise timeliness

The GCC did not meet Standard 15 last year because it was taking too long to investigate fitness to practise cases. The GCC implemented improvement measures last year and introduced further measures this year to improve timeliness. Improvements have not yet materialised and timeliness remains largely the same as last year. We concluded that the GCC did not meet Standard 15.

Risk management and interim orders

The GCC took action to address our concerns from last year about its interim order process and its guidance. It has a risk assessment process in place and takes action when it identifies risk. We identified issues on an extremely small number of cases (one this year and one last year), but did not consider this to indicate that the GCC is failing to identify and prioritise serious cases. We decided that Standard 17 is met. Next year is a periodic review, which provides an opportunity for us to review the GCC’s risk management in more detail.