health professions licensing authority

chiropractors and osteopaths board

• membership
• role
• code, policies and forms
• peak body

membership

• Chair - Dr Karen Dean (Osteopath)
• Public - Patrica Slocum
• Prof - Ms Brigitte Muller (Osteopath)
• Public - Andrea Steele Walduck
• Prof Member - Dr Jayna Gordon (Chiro)
• Prof Member - Dr Adriana Arango (Chiro)

role

The Chiropractors & Osteopaths Board of the Northern Territory is a statutory body responsible for ensuring the public is protected through the regulation of Chiropractors and Osteopaths registered in the Northern Territory.

The Chiropractors & Osteopaths Board carries out this mandate by:

• Ensuring that all Chiropractors & Osteopaths have received educational preparation to an agreed national standard;
• Dealing with issues of conduct and taking any disciplinary action as required;
• Administering the framework under which impaired Chiropractors & Osteopaths can be rehabilitated without necessarily losing their license to practice;
• Assisting to improve Chiropractors or Osteopath’s performance should it be found to be below accepted professional standards, and
• Ensuring that all Chiropractors & Osteopaths either currently registered or intending to be registered are competent and fit to practise.

The Health Professions Licensing Authority (HPLA) provides a bureau service to the Chiropractors & Osteopaths Board and carries out administrative duties as directed by it.

The objectives of the Health Practitioners Act 2004 (the Act) requires the Chiropractors & Osteopaths Board to:

• Protect and promote the health and safety of the people of the Territory;
• Promote the highest standard of professional health care practice in the Territory;
• Determine the standards for registration and enrolment of health practitioners and for professional health care practice in the Territory, and
• Facilitate the continuing competence of health practitioners in the Territory.

chiropractors and osteopaths code

The policies listed under the General Policies section plus the policies listed below comprise the Chiropractors & Osteopaths Code.

General Policies

Chiropractor and Osteopath Board Specific Policies

Note: Policies remain current until a review has been completed and the revised version available on the website

	Code of practice and conduct	PDF | DOC
	Entitlement to registration chiropractor osteopath	PDF | DOC
	Right to title policy	PDF | DOC
	Sexual relations policy	PDF | DOC
	Conduct and advertising policy/guidelines	PDF | DOC
	Spinal manipulation policy	PDF | DOC

Registration Forms

	Application form chiropractor	PDF | DOC
	Application form osteopath	PDF | DOC
	Mutual recognition and Trans Tasman Mutal Recognition form	PDF | DOC

peak body

	Council of Chiropractic Education Australia
	Australian Osteopaths Association