Consultation: Quality Improvement Practice Standard

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Chiropractic Practice Standard: Quality Improvement
Consultation on draft document

The Royal College of Chiropractors’ Chiropractic Practice Standards are evidence-based documents designed to help chiropractors meet their obligations in the provision of patient
care and/or the governance of their services. For each area of practice, they:

  • Highlight relevant elements of the General Chiropractic Council’s Code, and relevant legislation, as requirements;
  • Provide expected standards of practice informed by the evidence;
  • Provide additional helpful guidance; and
  • Provide a benchmark for good practice.

This new Chiropractic Practice Standard focuses on the principles and expected standards of Quality Improvement in a chiropractic care setting and aims to assist chiropractors to
achieve those standards. The RCC now wishes to consult on the content of the draft document.

The consultation is aimed, in particular, at the chiropractic profession, but the RCC is also keen to hear from other health professionals, health & care organisations, commissioners,
patients and the public. It particularly wishes to obtain views on the following questions:

  • Have we identified all the relevant requirements of chiropractors in the context of quality improvement?
  • Do the expected standards of practice reflect good practice and have we included the appropriate evidence to support them? Is anything missing?
  • Should we include any additional guidance?
  • Are our statements clearly expressed such that chiropractors, other health professionals, health & care organisations, commissioners, patients and public can reasonably be expected to understand what we mean?

Consultation now closed

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