Board | Accreditation Committee | How we accredit| Meet our team

The Board

An independent Chair i.e, a person who is not an acupuncturist and has no other association with acupuncture.

Non acupuncturist members;

• 2 educationalists, with experience of higher and professional education, with a particular remit to bring their educational expertise to the debate and decision making
• 2 representatives of the public interest, with a particular remit to ensure that issues of public concern about standards of training in acupuncture are kept to the forefront of Board discussion and decision making
• 1 representative of conventional medicine, to contribute a western medical perspective to discussions about the content and standards of the courses
• 1 representative of another complementary medicine, to contribute a broader complementary medicine perspective to debate

Acupuncturist members;

• 3 representatives of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC), to contribute a professional acupuncture perspective and to ensure that issues in common between the BAAB and the BAcC are discussed, and that policies and processes are congruent
• 3 representatives of the Council of Heads of Acupuncture Courses (CHAC), to contribute a professional acupuncture education perspective and to ensure that developing Board policies and issues of concern to teaching institutions are fully debated

Current members are listed in the Board’s Annual Report.

Board meetings

• The Board meets three times a year for half a day.
• The first half of the meeting is about policy issues and is open to observers. In the second half of the meeting the Board considers confidential reports about teaching institutions. This is closed to observers.
• The Board considers all reports and recommendations from the Accreditation Committee (AC) and ratifies, challenges, amends or overturns initial AC recommendation on accreditation.
• The Board initiates and follows through discussions on policies to do with educational standards, the accreditation processes, its own internal processes, national   reports on professional regulation and the future for acupuncture regulation.
• The Board is attended by the members, the officers of the Board, invited attendees such as the CEO or Chair of the BAcC and the Board’s Consultant Advisor, and observers from teaching institutions – who are excluded from the closed agenda.

All members of the Board and Accreditation Committee, Officers, attendees and others involved in Board work are bound by the Board’s Code of Conduct.