General Chiropractic Council Register Scraper

Scrape the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) public register — the statutory list of chiropractors registered to practise in the UK. Search by name or by town/postcode, look up exact registration numbers, or walk the full register. Records include registration status, qualification, every published practice with contact details, distance from a location, last-known practice flags, and published regulatory actions. No login, cookies, API key, or proxy setup required.

What this actor does

• Three modes: search by name or location, byRegistrationNumber for exact five-digit lookups, and fullRegister to browse all 4,000+ records
• Status coverage: practising, non-practising, conditions of practice, suspended/interim suspension, removed from register, and admonishment
• Complete practice data: every published practice, address, phone, email, website, coordinates from the site's map index, and distance in miles
• Regulatory history: action title, date, description, and a direct link to the published hearing decision
• Client-side refinement: gender, first-registered date range, qualification text, and city/region/country legacy filters
• Empty fields are omitted — records only contain values the GCC actually publishes

Output per chiropractor

• fullName — registered name
• gender — Male or Female when published
• registrationNumber — five-digit GCC number, zero-padded
• registrationStatus — canonical status such as Registered - Practising
• registrationStatusRaw — exact status text shown by the GCC, including en dashes
• statusCategory — practising, nonPractising, conditions, suspended, removed, admonishment, or other
• isRegistered — legacy flag: true when the canonical status starts with Registered
• isOnRegister — false for removed and suspended records
• isPractising — true for practising, conditions-of-practice, and admonishment records
• statusNote — the GCC's explanation when a non-standard status is shown
• sanction — short label for a non-standard status, e.g. Removal, Interim suspension, Conditions of practice
• dateFirstRegistered — ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD)
• qualification — degree or diploma and awarding body, where published
• practices[] — one entry per practice: name, street, city, region, postcode, country, phone, email, website, latitude, longitude, distanceMiles, addressFull, isLastKnown
• practiceCount — number of published practices
• primaryPracticeName — first practice name
• primaryPracticeAddress — first practice address
• practicesAreLastKnown — true when the profile says "Last known to be working at" and publishes at least one such practice
• distanceMiles — nearest-result distance in location searches
• regulatoryActions[] — title, actionDate, description, decisionUrl
• hasRegulatoryAction — true when at least one action is published
• regulatoryActionCount — number of published actions
• sourceUrl — canonical GCC profile URL
• searchQuery — name, location, registration number, or browse label that produced the record
• recordType: "chiropractor", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	search	search / byRegistrationNumber / fullRegister
name	string	–	Full or partial name, e.g. Smith (mode=search; ignored by fullRegister)
postcode	string	–	UK postcode; results nearest-first within 30 miles (mode=search)
location	string	–	Town, city, or UK postcode; results nearest-first (mode=search)
gender	select	–	Male / Female
registrationStatus	select	–	One of the six canonical register statuses
includeNonPractising	boolean	false	Include registered but non-practising chiropractors
includeRemovedSuspended	boolean	false	Include removed and suspended records
registeredAfter	string	–	ISO date; first registered on or after this date
registeredBefore	string	–	ISO date; first registered on or before this date
qualificationContains	string	–	Text filter on the published qualification
registrationNumbers	array	[]	Exact registration numbers (mode=byRegistrationNumber)
fetchDetails	boolean	true	Open each profile for full practice, contact, and action data
maxItems	integer	50	Hard cap on emitted records (1–5000)

Example: search by surname

{
  "mode": "search",
  "name": "Smith",
  "maxItems": 25,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Example: chiropractors near a postcode

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

Example: exact registration-number lookup

{
  "mode": "byRegistrationNumber",
  "registrationNumbers": ["01913", "00078", "02260"]
}

Example: browse the full register without detail requests

{
  "mode": "fullRegister",
  "maxItems": 500,
  "fetchDetails": false
}

Use cases

• Patient safety checks — confirm a chiropractor's current registration status before booking
• Insurer and referral credentialing — validate registration numbers and qualifications in bulk
• Healthcare directories — build a UK chiropractor directory with live practice contacts
• Compliance monitoring — track suspensions, removals, admonishments, and published decisions
• Practice-density research — measure provision by town, region, qualification pathway, or registration year
• Recruitment and lead research — find practices near a location with website, phone, and email where published

FAQ

What is the GCC register? The General Chiropractic Council is the UK statutory regulator for chiropractors. Its public register lists everyone who may lawfully use the title "chiropractor" in the UK. The actor reads that same public register; it is not affiliated with the GCC.

Why do some records have no gender, first-registered date, or qualification? The GCC suppresses those fields on removed and interim-suspension profiles. The actor omits what the site does not publish rather than inferring it.

Why do non-practising records usually have no practices? Non-practising chiropractors have told the GCC they are not currently working as chiropractors in the UK, so the register normally publishes no current practice for them. Last-known practices are kept where the site shows them.

Does distanceMiles appear for every search? No. It is published on location searches (town or postcode) within the site's 30-mile radius. Name and registration-number searches do not produce a distance.

What is the difference between isRegistered, isOnRegister, and isPractising? isRegistered preserves the old rule "status starts with Registered". isOnRegister is false for removed and suspended records. isPractising is true for practising, conditions-of-practice, and admonishment records, and false for non-practising, suspended, and removed records.

Can I include removed or non-practising chiropractors? Yes. Use includeNonPractising and includeRemovedSuspended, or select the matching registrationStatus; the relevant include flag is applied automatically.

How complete is the full register? The GCC currently returns 4,287 records, split across 429 result pages of 10. maxItems caps how many are emitted. Turning fetchDetails on adds one profile request per record and takes longer; turning it off emits the list fields only.

Are regulatory-action findings or outcomes structured? The current GCC profile publishes a free-text description and a decision link. The actor captures description and decisionUrl; older structured fields such as finding, outcome, dateRange, and noticeUrl are no longer published and are therefore omitted.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads the live GCC register, so registration status and practice details reflect the site at run time.