Felix Mwenda Mutua Albert Wagurah Taiti Philip Musyimi Mwololo Edwin Nyabuga Makori The Clinical Officers Council of Kenya (COC) is a government agency – a corporate body created by the Clinical Officers (Training, Registration and Licensing) Act no.

20 of 2017 – Laws of Kenya whose work is to supervise and control the training and professional practice of medicine, dentistry, orthopaedics and health work by clinical officers and to register and license clinics and medical centres.

A person who is registered by the Clinical Officers Council is entitled to render medical services in any approved institution and may, with respect to patients, examine, diagnose, order laboratory and imaging investigations, prescribe treatment and perform procedures as per their scope of training.

Historically styled after the United Examining Board which could award GMC-registrable diplomas known as the Conjoint and Triple Qualification to university and non-university-trained doctors in the UK between 1884 and 2007, this new Kenyan legislation is a modern law which came into effect in 2017 after repealing of an old act and has been updated (by court order and under the Health Laws (amendment) Act No.

5 of 2019) to align with Universal Health Care and to comply with the country's constitutional and legal requirements.