The College of Health Care Chaplains is one of the three UK national professional associations for chaplains working in health care

Health care

Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...

, including the NHS

National Health Service

The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...

. The college was formed in 1992 by the fusion of the Hospital Chaplains' Fellowship and the National Association of Whole Time Hospital Chaplains. It is formally linked to the trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 Amicus

Amicus

Amicus was the United Kingdom's second-largest trade union, and the largest private sector union, formed by the merger of Manufacturing Science and Finance, the AEEU agreed in 2001, and two smaller unions, UNIFI and the GPMU...

. Articles written by CHCC members are published in the Journal of Health Care Chaplains.

There is a separate association for chaplains specialising in hospice work and palliative care called the Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains

Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains

The Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains is a UK professional body, existing specifically for chaplains working in a Hospice and/or Palliative Care setting...

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