British Acupuncture Council

• NICE guideline for chronic pain: painkillers out, acupuncture in 7th April 2021
  The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a new guideline for chronic pain. This guideline was driven by the urgent need to cut down prescriptions of opioids and other painkillers and includes acupuncture as one of the four recommended treatments. This is NICE’s first guideline for chronic pain in general, rather […]
• BAcC maintains position on right to continue working in England 15th January 2021
  We have carefully reviewed the list of business closures issued by the Government late on 14 January and are assured that we do not fall within the ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine’ category for the purpose of the closures. This list of closures refers to ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine’ in the context of retail and the selling of […]
• BAcC response to Welsh circuit breaker lockdown 27th October 2020
  The Welsh Government has come to the unfortunate decision of restricting members to remote-only practice from Friday 23 of October until the start of Monday 9 November This is because, in contrast to the other three nations of the UK, the Welsh government mentions acupuncture specifically as a service that is required to close. We […]
• British Acupuncture Council welcomes support measures for self-employed 26th March 2020
  The chief executive of the British Acupuncture Council has warmly welcomed steps by the government to help the self-employed but warned that not being able to access funds before June could be problematic. Jennifer Norton said the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme, announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak this evening [26 March 2020], would […]
• Acupuncturists ‘stand ready’ to help NHS fight coronavirus 24th March 2020
  The chief executive of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) has said its members ‘stand ready’ to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Jennifer Norton said BAcC members were highly qualified healthcare practitioners who have been trained in physiology and western medical science as well as traditional Chinese medicine. She was speaking in response to a call […]