Join the BCA for 2025
Our Promise to all our members.
“To be there for you when you need us, providing practical tools and services, guidance for your practice and your business, day-to-day, as you develop professionally, and during times of difficulty.
We speak up in support of your profession, as part of person-centred, mainstream healthcare.”
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The BCA’s Vision is for chiropractic to be integral to UK healthcare. To achieve this, we have been working tirelessly to create a home for chiropractors who put patients first.
We support our members in all aspects of their professional lives, allowing them to devote their energies to delivering person-centred care.
The BCA has not only founded chiropractic in the UK as we now know it, but is continuing to develop the profession and achieve magnificent results year in, year out (more about which you can read below). This makes the Association a trusted source for chiropractors, but also patients and other stakeholders, who rely on us for:
- Business support
- Professional tools and services
- Professional learning and development
- Recognition within wider healthcare
- Promoting and protecting ethical ways of working
- Sense of belonging
- Providing an inclusive, modern voice for chiropractic – aligned to wider healthcare
- Defining and sharing best practice through evidence and ethics
Another year of achievement and progress
- In 2024, we have been able to develop an even stronger voice on behalf of our members and the wider profession. As well as a number of successful media campaigns, we sought to influence the Government through consultations and campaigns with partner organisations, like the Community Rehabilitation Alliance.
- We continue to strengthen our relationships with the Regulator, the GCC and the Royal College of Chiropractors, as well as the educational institutions who are growing the chiropractors of the future. We are the first choice for new chiropractic graduates and, yet again this year, they made up well over half of our new members.
- As well as developing our external representation and growing our community, we invested in the development of the BCA resources, with a brand-new BCA website on its way. This is a three-year project that we can’t wait to launch at the end of 2024 and continue to develop in 2025 and beyond.
Looking ahead
In the coming year, we have plans to increase our member benefits, continue to deliver our popular CPD and learning programme, and broaden our political campaigning. In addition, we will be investing in a brand-new member system to ensure that we’re well-equipped to understand your needs inside and out.
2025 is also going to be a year of celebration.
The BCA turns 100 and we will be bringing members a series of celebratory activities and events, including one special annual conference.
Best in class member services
Chiropractors don’t have to join a professional association, but nearly 2000 chiropractors choose to be part of the BCA to connect, learn, network and share with others who value a person-centred ethos.
Supporting chiropractors is in our DNA. We know how hard you work for your patients and throughout our 99 years of existence, we have gained unparalleled experience of chiropractic needs and intricacies within the health sector.
As an organisation we aim to advise and guide members through their professional life, including:
Employment, HR and Health and Safety
Compliance support and advice from a specialist business helpline (available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week), as well as complaints procedures advice, clinic resources, template employment contracts, micro-awareness videos on various subjects (such as bullying, harassment and victimisation) and more!
Legal and Tax advice
Legal advice on business matters within UK law, and UK tax advice.
Find a Chiropractor feature
Member inclusion in our Find a Chiropractor feature on the BCA website, which attracts over 40 000 annual visits each year.
Access to Latest Research
Free subscription to the Research Review Service (RRS) with further discounts on RRS courses.
i-Refer
Free subscription to iRefer, an essential online reference tool, published by The Royal College of Radiologists, that provides up-to-date guidance on selecting the most appropriate imaging investigation for a range of clinical problems.
Discounts
A helping hand with the daily costs of clinical products and services, as well as regularly updated high street discounts.
BCA Events
Run throughout the year, our online and in-person events provide opportunities for our community to come together, often gaining valuable CPD hours while nurturing relationships that support members in their professional life.
Each year, the BCA hosts a popular conference aimed at celebrating the Vision and Mission of the Association, reconnecting with peers, and creating new relationships with like-minded professionals. We also organise the BCA Excellence Awards, showcasing and celebrating the achievements within the membership.
If you need further information about membership of the BCA, please contact enquiries@chiropractic-uk.co.uk.
Insurance
We know that many of our members choose us as their Association because BCA Insurance Services* provides an exclusive insurance offering that remains of a high quality, giving you peace of mind every step of the way.
You can practice with confidence when backed by BCA Insurance Services*, which is available exclusively to BCA members. BCA Insurance Services* offer a bespoke complaint-handling service, where BCA members receive guidance from experienced, specialist insurance advisers to support and defend their interests.
*BCA Insurance Services is a trading name of Lloyd & Whyte Ltd.
You can find out more about BCA Insurance here. If you need further information about the BCA Insurance policy, please contact bcainsurance@lloydwhyte.com.
Committed to doing things properly
Our Association is led by a Board of elected BCA members, which epitomises our values of quality and decency. BCA ‘Full’ members elect our Board to ensure the individual member’s voice is at the heart of our work.
We encourage members to undertake the Royal College of Chiropractor’s PRT programme, completion of which also leads to being promoted to ‘Full’ BCA membership and entitles voting rights within our democratic structure
Fees for 2025
Your BCA member subscriptions
Our membership period runs from 1 January to 31 December each year but those joining during the year will have their fees pro-rated. For practising BCA membership categories there are several tiers of cost, depending on your year of graduation (if you wish to join before 1 January 2025, please contact enquiries@chiropractic-uk.co.uk).
BCA Fee Table 2025
| Year of Graduation | Member Fee Total (includes Chiropractic Research Levy) £ | Insurance (incl Insurance Premium Tax @ 12%) £ | Membership and Insurance Total £ | Monthly payment if on DD scheme (based on the full 10 annual payments) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 132.60 | 922.10 | 1054.70 | 105.47 |
| 2023 | 447.80 | 1030.45 | 1478.25 | 147.83 |
| 2022 (and earlier) | 662 | 1030.45 | 1692.45 | 169.25 |
| Returning from parental leave * | 427.40 | 1030.45 | 1457.85 | 145.79 |
| Practising academic faculty rate ** | 427.40 | 525.72* | 953.12 | 95.31 |
| Non-practising academic faculty rate *** | 213.20 | 525.72** | 738.92 | 73.90 |
| In membership 50+ years **** | 50 | 1030.45 | 1080.45 | 108.05 |
| Student membership | 0 | n/a | 0 | |
| Associated membership ***** | 142.80 | n/a | 142.80 |
* Members who are returning from maternity, paternity, shared parenting or adoption leave. N.B. Please advise the BCA both in advance of leave and ahead of a return to work.
** Those working at a GCC-accredited chiropractic teaching institution, who are in private practice outside of faculty work. Terms apply. Subject to application.
*** Those working at a GCC-accredited chiropractic teaching institution in the UK, who are not in private practice. Terms apply. Subject to application.
****Those members who have been in 50 consecutive years of practising membership.
*****Membership category for those not in practise in the UK (nor on the GCC register). Domiciled in the UK or overseas.
Where there are extenuating financial circumstances, illness, or family issues, a concessionary consideration may be made on member fees. Amount and period at the discretion of the Board / Director of Membership & Operations. Subject to application. All reduced and concessionary rates are subject to annual review.
If you choose to pay by direct debit, payments are taken over 10 monthly instalments, starting in January, which helps you to spread the costs. There is no additional charge for this facility. Alternatively, you can pay by BACS in a single payment.
Fees table for those graduating in 2025
2025 Graduate Fees Table
| Month You Wish to Start Work | Member Fee Total £ | Insurance (incl Insurance Premium Tax @ 12%) £ | Membership and Insurance Total £ |
|---|---|---|---|
| June | 0 | 537.88 | 537.88 |
| July | 0 | 461.04 | 461.04 |
| August | 0 | 384.20 | 384.20 |
| September | 0 | 307.36 | 307.36 |
| October | 0 | 230.52 | 230.52 |
| November | 0 | 153.68 | 153.68 |
| December | 0 | 76.84 | 76.84 |
As we continue in our mission to be the home for chiropractors who put patients first, we look forward to your continued membership for 2025.
