Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
General Chiropractic Council |
| Acronym: |
GCC
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| Legal status: |
Statutory Regulatory Body set up by UK Parliament
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| Website address: |
http://www.gcc-uk.org
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
David Howell
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| Position: |
Chief Executive & Registrar |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Amanda Miller
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| Position: |
Executive Officer (Policy & Communications) |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
44 Wicklow Street
LONDON WC1X 9HL
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 02077135155 |
| Fax number: |
(+44) 02077135844 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
We are a UK-wide statutory body, independent of government, set up by Parliament to act in the public interest by regulating chiropractors. The Chiropractors Act 1994 defines our statutory duty as ‘to develop and regulate the profession of chiropractic’.
It is a legal requirement for chiropractors in the UK to be registered with the GCC and to abide by our Code of Practice and Standard of Proficiency [link]. It is a criminal offence for anyone who is not GCC registered to describe themselves as a chiropractor or to imply they are a chiropractor.
We currently regulate around 2,700 chiropractors who are listed on www.gcc-uk.
To be eligible for GCC registration, chiropractors must meet legal criteria. For example:
a. a GCC recognised degree in chiropractic or, if holding a non-GCC recognised overseas chiropractic degree, pass a test of competence
b. be good character and in good health, both physically and mentally
c. have professional indemnity insurance
d. complete mandatory continuing professional development annually.
We undertake our statutory duties through four committees:
a. Education.
b. Investigation.
c. Professional Conduct.
d. Health.
The GCC is accountable to Parliament and subject to scrutiny by the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence. We are one of nine UK regulators of health professionals.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
20
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Complementary information:
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The GCC has a Senior Management Team of five people and a Council of 14.
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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The GCC is a member of AURE - the Alliance of UK Health Regulators in Europe (www.aure.org.uk)
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2011
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01/2012
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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The costs in 3 above are less than the specified fields - staff time only.
We are primarily funded by registrants fees not government grants. We received a one-off government grant in 2010 for a specific project.
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