This is the UK legal rule setting out the continuing professional development every registered chiropractor must complete each year to remain on the register. It specifies minimum hours, the type of learning required, and a structured process for planning and reviewing it.
What was studied?
This rule covers the annual CPD requirements for registered chiropractors, including the minimum number of hours, the proportion that must involve learning alongside others, and the four-stage cycle chiropractors must follow to plan and evaluate their development.
What did they find?
It requires at least 30 hours of CPD each year, running September to August, with at least 15 of those hours involving verifiable learning with others. Chiropractors must identify their learning needs, plan how to address them, carry out the CPD, then evaluate its effectiveness.
Why it matters
This means a chiropractor's knowledge isn't fixed at the point they qualified. By law it has to keep developing every year, in a structured, checkable way, for as long as they practise.
Why we included it
It illustrates a principle regulators build into professions generally: qualification is a starting point, not an endpoint, and ongoing competence has to be actively maintained and demonstrated, not simply assumed to continue.
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What was studied?
This rule covers the annual CPD requirements for registered chiropractors, including the minimum number of hours, the proportion that must involve learning alongside others, and the four-stage cycle chiropractors must follow to plan and evaluate their development.
What did they find?
It requires at least 30 hours of CPD each year, running September to August, with at least 15 of those hours involving verifiable learning with others. Chiropractors must identify their learning needs, plan how to address them, carry out the CPD, then evaluate its effectiveness.
Why it matters
This means a chiropractor's knowledge isn't fixed at the point they qualified. By law it has to keep developing every year, in a structured, checkable way, for as long as they practise.
Why we included it
It illustrates a principle regulators build into professions generally: qualification is a starting point, not an endpoint, and ongoing competence has to be actively maintained and demonstrated, not simply assumed to continue.