It protects the health and safety of the public by ensuring high standards of practice in the chiropractic profession.

[4] The General Chiropractic Council provides a searchable database of registered chiropractors.

It is illegal to call oneself a Chiropractor in the UK without being registered with the GCC.

The General Council is formed of seven non-chiropractors and seven chiropractors and meets six times a year.

The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) is an independent body accountable to the UK Parliament which promotes the health and wellbeing of the public and oversees the nine UK healthcare regulators.