Useful Links

• British Medical Acupuncture Society (BMAS) https://www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk/

What is BMAS?

The BMAS is a registered charity established to stimulate and promote the use and scientific understanding of acupuncture as part of the practice of medicine for the public benefit.

It seeks to enhance the education and training of suitably qualified practitioners, and to promote high standards of working practices in acupuncture among such practitioners, by means of tests, examinations, and accreditation procedures.

• British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) https://acupuncture.org.uk/ 

• Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP) https://www.aacp.org.uk/

• General Medical Council (GMC) https://www.gmc-uk.org/

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) https://www.nice.org.uk/ 

• The NHS Website https://www.nhs.uk/

• NHS: Acupuncture (last reviewed 13th August 2019) https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/acupuncture/ 

• TIME: Why Acupuncture is Going Mainstream in Medicine (published online 29thApril 2022) https://time.com/6171247/acupuncture-health-benefits-research/ 

• CSP: NICE recommends exercise, psychological therapies and acupuncture for chronic pain (published online 15th April 2021) https://www.csp.org.uk/news/2021-04-15-nice-recommends-exercise-psychological-therapies-acupuncture-chronic-pain

• BBC – You, Me & The Big C: How does acupuncture work? Interview with Dr Matthew Brown, consultant in pain medicine and anaesthetics at the Royal Marsden Hospital (published 31st August 2018) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c340r94dll5t/acupuncture?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=undefined_p06jxfc7%26How%20does%20acupuncture%20work%3F%262018-08-31T08%3A29%3A50.738Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:pips:p06jxfc7&pinned_post_asset_id=undefined_p06jxfc7&pinned_post_type=share

• TIME: You Asked: Does Acupuncture Work (published online 29th June 2016) https://time.com/4383611/acupuncture-alternative-medicine-pain/ 

Chen, L., & Michalsen, A. (2017). Management of chronic pain using complementary and integrative medicine. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 357, j1284. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j1284 

Hao, J. J., & Mittelman, M. (2014). Acupuncture: past, present, and future. Global advances in health and medicine, 3(4), 6–8. https://doi.org/10.7453/gahmj.2014.042