The role of the GB is to ensure that the BAcC meets its responsibilities to:
- promote the benefits of traditional acupuncture as a valid system of healthcare
- safeguard the public
- promote BAcC members’ interests
- uphold benchmark standards of education and practice
The wider function of the GB is to:
- ensure that the BAcC continues to flourish and aspire to ‘a world in which traditional acupuncture is accepted as a valid healthcare choice’
- set strategy and policy, in consultation with and advised by members, committees, the chief executive, and others, as appropriate
- oversee implementation of strategy and effective/efficient management of the BAcC through the chief executive and committees
- ensure compliance with the company’s objects, its governing documents and all relevant legislation and regulation
- ensure prudence in respect of managing the company’s assets
Governing Board members
Listed below are the Practitioner Directors, Non-Practitioner Directors and Non-Voting Attendees at Governing Board meetings:
The BAcC strategy for 2021-26
The strategy document sets out our vision, mission, values and key aims and objectives over the next five years and high-level measures of success.
Annual Review 2023
Read the highlights and reports of 2023 from the Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer and Chair of the British Acupuncture Council.
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Pia Huber
Chair
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Sarah Major
Practitioner Director
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Lianne Aquilina
Practitioner Director
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Alan Longcroft
Practitioner Director
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Susan Evans
Practitioner Director
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Mark Stobbs
Non-Practitioner Director
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Julie Stone
Non-Practitioner Director
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Joseph Ogbonna FRSA
Non-Practitioner Director
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Alex Jacobs
Chief Executive Officer - Non-Voting Attendee
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