Clinical Officers Council


The Clinical Officers Council of Kenya is a state corporation incorporated under the Clinical Officers Act no. 20 of 2017 - Laws of Kenya, whose main object is to supervise and control the training and professional practice of medicine, dentistry, orthopaedics and health work by clinical officers and to register and license clinics and medical centres. A person who is registered by the Clinical Officers Council is entitled to render medical services in any approved institution and may, with respect to patients, examine, diagnose, order laboratory and imaging investigations, prescribe treatment and perform procedures as per their scope of training.

History

Historically styled after the United Examining Board which could award GMC-registrable diplomas known as the Conjoint and Triple Qualification to university and non-university-trained doctors in the UK between 1884 and 2007, this new Kenyan legislation is a modern law which came into effect in 2017 after repealing of an old act and has been updated to align with Universal Health Care and to comply with the country's constitutional and legal requirements.

Functions

The functions of the Clinical Officers Council are to:
The clinical officers council is made up of the following members:
The Disciplinary Committee of the clinical officers council is a quasi-judicial body which is made up of the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health and the Attorney General plus four clinical officers serving in various capacities and has powers to: