The Clinical Officers Council of Kenya (COC) is a government agency - a corporate body created by the Clinical Officers (Training, Registration and Licensing) Act no. 20 of 2017 - Laws of Kenya whose work 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.