The College of Chiropractors is an academic membership organisation with over 1500 UK members, 2200 members worldwide, and the following objectives:

• to promote the art, science and practice of chiropractic;
• to improve and maintain standards in the practice of chiropractic for the benefit of the public;
• to promote awareness and understanding of chiropractic amongst medical practitioners and other healthcare professionals and the public;
• to educate and train practitioners in the art, science and practice of chiropractic;
• to advance the study of and research in chiropractic.

Members and Fellows of the College have always firmly embraced postgraduate training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the public interest, pre-empting any statutory requirement. Being part of the College demonstrates an active commitment and contribution to the College’s objectives. Since its incorporation in 1999, the College has worked with an eminent Advisory Board which supports the College in its aim to achieve a Royal Charter to signal the importance of chiropractic in complementing the mainstream healthcare professions and to provide impetus to build an integrated chiropractic service around patients.

The College actively fosters patient and public partnership through the Lay Partnership Group and via patient involvement in its governing Council. It offers its membership a wide and growing range of benefits including paper and on-line subscription to the Clinical Chiropractic international journal, on-line access to Science Direct (a journal information service), discounts on Elsevier publications and access to a UK-wide programme of subsidised CPD events via a unique infrastructure of regional and expert groups or 'faculties'.