Groups and communities

For osteopaths, access to a community of colleagues who have the shared experience of training and working in osteopathy can offer an invaluable network of support. This may be particularly so for osteopaths who work largely alone, either as sole practitioners or in remote areas. An osteopathic community in your area can provide an opportunity for local osteopaths to get to know each other, benefit from professional networking or serve as a CPD hub. It can also provide a forum for peer discussion, lectures, and sharing clinical expertise.

Regional groups provide inexpensive CPD for osteopaths, they also encourage osteopaths to work together for the benefit of the whole profession and reduce the risks associated with working in isolation.

Is there nothing in your region or range of interest? If so, have you thought about setting up your own group? You might also find this case study about setting up a virtual group useful.

Are you leading a small CPD group? Can we support you?

Do you run a regular CPD group for your colleagues? Are you responsible for arranging CPD sessions in house with a small group of colleagues, perhaps in a multidisciplinary practice? Whatever kind of CPD group you are running, please let us know about it, no matter its size we can offer support to help you. We have free CPD resources that you could use to deliver sessions to your group, or we could arrange GOsC speakers to present on various aspects of the CPD scheme or about Fitness to Practise among other things.

Get in touch with Stacey Towle to arrange support for your group via email: stowle@osteopathy.org.uk

Regional group

London Osteopathic Society

Waltham Forest Osteopathic Group

Canterbury Osteopathic Group

Kent and East Sussex Osteopaths

(East) Surrey Osteopathic Group

Bristol Osteopathic Society

Wessex Group of Osteopaths

Western Counties Society of Osteopaths

BBENSCH Osteopaths  (Beds; Bucks; Essex; Norfolk; Cambs; Suffolk; Herts)

Cambridgeshire Osteopathic Group (COG)

Essex Osteopaths

Norfolk Osteopathic Society

Osteopaths in Bedfordshire

Oxfordshire Osteopathic Network

Suffolk Osteopaths

East Midlands Osteopathy CPD

South Wales Osteopathic Society

Northern Counties Society of Osteopaths

Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Durham, Cleveland

Osteopathic CPD – Cheshire

Petersfield Osteopathic Networking Group

Sheffield Osteopathic Association

South Manchester Osteopathic Group (SMOG)

Yorkshire Osteopathic Community

Scottish Osteopathic Society

Northern Ireland’s Osteopaths

Gibraltar Osteopathic Society(GOsC registration a legal requirement)

Contact details for regional groups can be found in the o zone.

Meeting with osteopaths and getting to properly understand the concerns and challenges they face in practice is a top priority for the GOsC. If you can gather a reasonable number of colleagues or would like a representative from the GOsC to attend a forthcoming meeting of your local or regional group, or if you’d like further information on how the GOsC can support you to establish a new group, please contact Stacey Towle via email: stowle@osteopathy.org.uk

Set up and run a group

If you don’t have a local or regional group near you, why not think about setting up a new one?