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Consultations and events

We are committed to working with osteopaths, patients, other healthcare professionals and all those with an interest in osteopathic care and the work of the GOsC. Through consultations, we invite your views when we are planning new areas of work or changing the way we do things. We always welcome suggestions for improving the way we do things and we tell you below about how you can send us feedback.

Current Consultations

Strengthening protection of the title ‘osteopath': Amending Section 32(1) of the Osteopaths Act 1993

We are seeking views on our plan to request amendments to the Osteopaths Act 1993. Our aim is to provide further protection for patients and the public from misuse of the title ‘osteopath.’ In this consultation we are looking for your views on:

  • whether we should seek an amendment to the Osteopaths Act 1993 to strengthen the wording in relation to breaches of the protection of the osteopathic title
  • the evidence for the need for this change
  • if a change is sought, the nature of those amendments.

How to respond

The deadline for responses to this consultation is on Thursday 9 October 2025.

You can send us your views by:

Share your views at our online sessions

Join Matthew Redford, GOsC's Chief Executive and Registrar and Sheleen McCormack, Director of Fitness to Practise at one of our interactive online sessions to discuss the proposed changes and provide us with your feedback.

Attendance can count towards your CPD hours, including any time taken for pre-reading the consultation documents in preparation.

View our past consultations.

Feedback

From all sections of the website you can email us to let us know what you think about the information there; you can also use the form on our Contact us page to ask us questions, let us know if you haven't found the information you want or to let us know if you have found anything on this website particularly helpful.

Involving patients in our work

We are looking for osteopathic patients to be actively involved in the work we do so we can listen, learn and better understand the patient perspective. If you are interested and willing to use your unique experience to help make a difference to future osteopathic care, we would love to hear from you. Find out more

Events

For details of forthcoming Council and Education Committee meetings that are open to the public visit our Meetings page. When we have other forthcoming events, details will be available here.