This statutory instrument sets the legal rules for continuing professional development that every registered UK chiropractor must follow each year to keep their registration. It defines the required hours, the type of learning expected, and the record-keeping required of practitioners across their career.
What was studied?
As secondary legislation, it covers the annual CPD obligations placed on registered chiropractors, including how learning must be structured, what counts as verifiable activity, and what happens when a chiropractor falls short of the requirement.
What did they find?
It requires 30 hours of CPD each year, at least 15 verifiable through learning with others, plus one full learning cycle of assessing needs, planning, doing and evaluating. Non-compliance can eventually lead to removal from the register.
Why it matters
It is the legal backbone behind why chiropractors must keep training and updating their knowledge throughout their career, rather than relying solely on what was learned at graduation many years earlier.
Why we included it
It illustrates why ongoing education works best as a binding professional obligation rather than an optional extra, keeping clinical knowledge and advice aligned with current evidence rather than what was learned at graduation.
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What was studied?
As secondary legislation, it covers the annual CPD obligations placed on registered chiropractors, including how learning must be structured, what counts as verifiable activity, and what happens when a chiropractor falls short of the requirement.
What did they find?
It requires 30 hours of CPD each year, at least 15 verifiable through learning with others, plus one full learning cycle of assessing needs, planning, doing and evaluating. Non-compliance can eventually lead to removal from the register.
Why it matters
It is the legal backbone behind why chiropractors must keep training and updating their knowledge throughout their career, rather than relying solely on what was learned at graduation many years earlier.
Why we included it
It illustrates why ongoing education works best as a binding professional obligation rather than an optional extra, keeping clinical knowledge and advice aligned with current evidence rather than what was learned at graduation.