UK Chiropractor Register Scraper

Scrape the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) public register — the official, legally-mandated list of every chiropractor entitled to practise in the UK. Search by name, find chiropractors near a postcode, or look up exact registration numbers. Get practice addresses, phone/email/website, qualifications, registration status, and any published regulatory (fitness-to-practise) history. No login, no cookies, no proxy required.

What this actor does

• Two modes: search (name / location / status filters, or browse the whole register) and byRegistrationNumber (exact lookup)
• "Near me" search: give a UK postcode and get chiropractors nearest to it, exactly like the site's own "Find a Chiropractor" tool
• Global coverage: most registrants practise in the UK, but the GCC also registers chiropractors practising in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Israel, and elsewhere
• Multiple practices per chiropractor are all captured, not just the first
• Regulatory history: hearing decisions, findings and outcomes for chiropractors who have been the subject of GCC fitness-to-practise proceedings, with links to the official PDF notices
• Empty fields are omitted — every record only contains data the GCC actually publishes

Output per chiropractor

• fullName
• gender
• registrationNumber — 5-digit GCC registration number
• registrationStatus — e.g. Registered - Practising, Registered - Non-Practising, Erased/Struck Off
• isRegistered — boolean, derived from registrationStatus
• dateFirstRegistered — ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD)
• qualification — chiropractic degree/diploma and awarding institution, where published
• practices[] — one entry per practice: name, street, city, region, postcode, country, phone, email, website, latitude, longitude
• regulatoryActions[] — only present if the GCC has published a hearing: title, dateRange, finding, outcome, noticeUrl, decisionUrl
• sourceUrl — the exact GCC register page for this registration number
• recordType: "chiropractor", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	search	search / byRegistrationNumber
name	string	–	Full or partial name (mode=search)
postcode	string	–	UK postcode — returns nearest chiropractors first
city	string	–	Filter by practice city/town
region	string	–	Filter by county/region
country	string	–	Filter by country (e.g. United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia)
gender	select	–	Male / Female
registrationStatus	select	–	Filter by registration status
registeredAfter	string	–	ISO date; only chiropractors registered on/after this date
registeredBefore	string	–	ISO date; only chiropractors registered on/before this date
qualificationContains	string	–	Keyword filter on the qualification text
registrationNumbers	array	["01913"]	Exact registration numbers (mode=byRegistrationNumber)
maxItems	int	50	Hard cap on emitted records (1–5000)

Example: browse the whole register

{ "mode": "search", "maxItems": 100 }

Example: search by surname

{ "mode": "search", "name": "Smith", "maxItems": 50 }

Example: chiropractors near a postcode

{ "mode": "search", "postcode": "SW1A 1AA", "maxItems": 20 }

Example: currently-practising female chiropractors in Surrey

{
  "mode": "search",
  "region": "Surrey",
  "gender": "Female",
  "registrationStatus": "Registered - Practising",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: exact registration-number lookup

{ "mode": "byRegistrationNumber", "registrationNumbers": ["01913", "00078", "05581"] }

Use cases

• Patient safety checks — verify a chiropractor is currently registered before booking treatment
• Insurance & referral networks — validate practitioner credentials in bulk
• Healthcare directories — build a searchable UK chiropractor directory with live registration status
• Compliance monitoring — track fitness-to-practise outcomes and registration changes over time
• Market research — analyse practice density by region, qualification pathway, or registration year
• Lead generation — find chiropractic practices near a location, with contact details

FAQ

What is the GCC? The General Chiropractic Council is the UK's independent statutory regulator for chiropractors, established under the Chiropractors Act 1994. It is a criminal offence to call yourself a "chiropractor" in the UK without being on this register.

Is this the same list patients see on gcc-uk.org? Yes — the actor reads the exact same public search tool at gcc-uk.org, with no login or special access.

Why do some records have no practice address? A small number of chiropractors (mostly Registered - Non-Practising) have no current practice on file with the GCC — the actor omits the practices field rather than fabricating one.

How is postcode search matched to a location? The actor geocodes the postcode via the free, public postcodes.io API (no key required) and passes the coordinates to GCC's own proximity search, exactly as the site's UI does client-side.

Why is registrationStatus a dropdown but city/region/country free text? Registration status is a small, fixed set of values defined by the regulator. City, region, and country are open-ended place names (the GCC's own search form uses free-text boxes for these too).

What does isRegistered mean? true for any status starting with "Registered" (Practising or Non-Practising); false for erased/struck-off registrants. Being "Non-Practising" still means the person is a registered chiropractor — they are simply not currently seeing patients.

Does the actor include historic/removed chiropractors? Yes, where the GCC's own register still lists them (typically alongside their fitness-to-practise hearing outcome).

Why is registrationStatus/gender/date/qualification filtering sometimes slow? GCC's own search form only filters by name, postcode, city, region, and country server-side — status, gender, registration date, and qualification are applied by the actor after fetching each page. Registered - Practising/Registered - Non-Practising/Female/Male are common (a match typically appears within the first page or two). Erased/Struck Off is rare — around 0.5% of the register — and the GCC's own listing order does not group by status, so the actor may need to page through hundreds of records before finding enough matches to reach maxItems. When filtering for a rare status with no name/city/region/country, set a generous run timeout (10+ minutes) and a small maxItems (1–5).

How fresh is the data? The GCC register is a live, continuously-updated official database — the actor always reads the current state at run time.