The Osteopathic Centre for Children (OCC) is a charitable organisation based in the UK that seeks to ensure that paediatric osteopathy – a gentle, effective and environmentally-friendly treatment – is established as an option for parents and carers concerned for their child’s health.

In our full-day clinic, open five days a week, we are able to treat 30,000 babies, children and women in the peri-natal period each year. We are not part of the NHS, and as a charity, we are entirely reliant on donations to keep our clinic open. We ask familes to make a donation towards the cost of each treatment, but no one is ever refused osteopathic care through lack of funds.

For more than 10 years, a team of our osteopaths has also regularly visited the neo-natal and paediatric units of three London hospitals (North Middlesex, Barnet General and Chase Farm), working alongside doctors, nurses and  other healthcare professionals.

The OCC has also become a world-recognised learning institution. Each year, we offer 25 qualified osteopaths places on our unique Diploma in Paediatric Osteopathy course. To date, more 186 osteopaths have graduated from our two-year programmes. We are also the centre of a world-wide network of practitioners. To date, we have 62 Alumni members and 42 Associate Members who practise throughout the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia, Israel and the United States of America.

Find out more about what we do here at the OCC or what to expect from your appointment, and the difference we have made in hundreds of families’ lives.

For information about the Conference 2012, please visit the conference’s website.