Join the growing affordable acupuncture community!

The Association of Community and Multibed Acupuncture Clinics is dedicated to supporting and promoting multibed acupuncture. All ACMAC member clinics are committed to providing affordable acupuncture to their local communities.

Anyone is free to join ACMAC at any time. Indeed, we need and appreciate your support. Perhaps you are raring to go, ready to open a clinic, or already run a multibed clinic. Congratulations, please join as a Clinic member! BUT YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE RUNNING A MULTIBED CLINIC TO BE A SUPPORTER! If you are still in the pondering stage, or would simply like to support the multibed movement, you are warmly welcomed too as a Supporter. Rates for membership are low, and charged on a sliding scale. When you become an ACMAC member, you will immediately benefit from discounts on any events we run and on supplies at Balance Healthcare and JCM (see below). Please read on and then complete the registration form at the bottom of the page.

How can my clinic and I benefit from ACMAC membership?

Community and support: for Clinic members and Supporters

Just as our clinics benefit our patient-communities, we can create a supportive practitioner-community network. Being a member of ACMAC enables you to benefit from the wisdom and experiences of others, and share yours wisdom too, via our online forum. ACMAC hosts conferences and workshops, which are an opportunity not only to learn new clinical skills and enhance our business and marketing acumen, but also to meet up and chew the fat together. All ACMAC members (Clinics and Supporters) receive discounts at all these events, plus at events run by our associate organisations. For details of these events, keep an eye on our News and Events page.

Promotion: for Clinic members

If you join as a Clinic member, we will place your clinic details on the “ACMAC Clinics” page, along with your logo, link to your website, email, and any photos of your clinic that you may like to share. This presents clear information to the public. ACMAC has a Facebook page which can be shared with practitioners and patients alike to spread the word about multibed practice.

Discounts on supplies, products and events: for Clinic members and Supporters

UK and Europe

• Balance Healthcare has teamed up with JCM to create Balance @ JCM, and offers a 15% discount for ACMAC members on all needles (except Seirin which are already heavily discounted) and 10% discount on all other products (except books, also heavily discounted already). See www.jcm.co.uk/catalogue.php?catID=200&opener=0-200 for a product and price list. Balance are very keen to support multibed clinics and you can contact Helen Kenny on helen@balancehealthcare.com for free samples, a catalogue and any product info you might need. Please note that the website cannot calculate the ACMAC discount, so please call 0800 072 0202 (freephone) to place an order. You will need to tell Balance @ JCM your ACMAC clinic number when you order. Balance can take payment in UK£ or Euros.

• JCM offers ACMAC members a 20% discount on the JCM CD-ROM. If you would like to order the CD-ROM, please contact the JCM office direct, via info@jcm.co.uk (not via Balance Healthcare) and tell them your clinic number.

• And now JCM offers ACMAC members a new discount on subscription to the Journal: members can now subscribe at the student rate, which represents a 25% saving. Please subscribe as if you were a student – you will be contacted by email and then you should say that you are an ACMAC member and give your clinic number. See http://www.jcm.co.uk/ for more details and to subscribe. Subscription now includes 3 hard copies of the Journal each year, with immediate access to the entire JCM on-line archive.
• Dr Richard Tan offers ACMAC members discounts on all his seminars. No other organisation or group is offered a discount by Dr Tan! For details of his 2012 schedule please see http://www.tanwubian.com/
• Plus ACMAC members receive discounts on all events and courses run by ACMAC.

Australia

We are delighted that Acuneeds, one of Australia’s main Chinese Medicine suppliers, has offered a 10% discount to ACMAC members. For more details or to benefit from discounted products from Acuneeds, please email kristina@acuneeds.com. You will need to give your ACMAC membership number to receive your discount. Clinic, Supporter and Student members can benefit from this discount.

Australian members also receive discounts with Dr Richard Tan, see http://www.tanwubian.com/ for his schedule.

To benefit from the ACMAC discount on subscription with JCM,  please register as a student and then give your ACMAC number when contacted by email.

Australian ACMAC members receive discounts on any events run by ACMAC in Australia and worldwide.

What are conditions of membership?

ACMAC Clinic members must provide acupuncture at affordable rates. Member clinics are asked to provide acupuncture treatment at half the local “going rate” for one-to-one treatment, or lower. We strongly encourage clinics to offer a sliding scale of prices, as this is a powerful tool to increase access to treatment. We recommend the following sliding scale: £15 to £35 for both initial and follow-up appointments. If your rates are much outside of this range, your membership may be suspended.

ACMAC supports the provision of acupuncture in accessible, multibed settings. If you do not practice in a multibed setting you may still join ACMAC if you can demonstrate that you are offering your community affordable, accessible treatment, ie in an existing project such as HIV care or drug rehab, or for victims of traumatic events or natural disasters. One-to-one practitioners who offer concessionary rates to some patients will not be considered for ACMAC membership. This is because we believe that it is not a good business model for practitioners, who will earn very little for treatments at concessionary rates, or patients, who are likely to feel indebted to that practitioner. We believe that high volume, accessible, patient-funded clinics are the best way to provide affordable treatment to patients and sustainable work for practitioners.

ACMAC does not regulate either practitioners or clinics. We do not have the funds to do this, and we do not wish to duplicate the roles (and expense) of national regulatory bodies. ACMAC member clinics are asked to abide by the codes of conduct and safe practice of your national regulatory body, such as the British Acupuncture Council.

How much does membership cost?

Rates are the same for Clinic members and Supporters. If your clinic is joining, you must tell us on the registration form (below) the names of all your practitioners, who will all be able to benefit from discounts etc, and let us know if a practitioner leaves or a new one joins, so we can keep our records up to date.

Students have a special rate of £35 in the UK, Euro 45 or $62 AUD. This must be paid as a one-off payment, either by direct transfer to our bank account in the UK for UK students only, or by Paypal for Eurozone or Australian students. Please select the appropriate payment below and complete the student registration form at the bottom of this page. 

UK members: £40 – £60 per membership period or part membership period (see below)

Eurozone members: €50 – €75 per annum

Australian members: Aus$70 – 90 per annum

We charge our fees on a sliding scale because we think it is the fairest way to include multibed clinics of different sizes and types, as well as other supporters, students, patients, etc. If your clinic is joining your payment may reflect how well-established your clinic is, and/or how many clinic members you have (all of whom can enjoy member benefits), but you do not need to justify the amount you pay. If you have more than one clinic under the same name/brand, you may pay one fee, but in fairness to other clinics we ask that you pay at least £25 per clinic, or E35 in the Eurozone, or Aus$40 in Australia.

It is our intention that membership fees are kept as affordable as possible. We are committed to seeking income from other sources in order to achieve this.

IMPORTANT: Each new membership year starts on 31 January, i.e. the current membership year started on 31st January 2012. UK clinics or individuals joining ACMAC in the last 2 months of the membership year, ie December and January are welcome to pay £20 for the remainder of that year’s membership. Those members, like all other members, will then be asked to renew membership and pay the next year’s membership fees, irrespective of what date they joined, on 31st January. As the membership year draws to a close therefore, any new UK clinics or individuals joining ACMAC can save money by using the standing order option to pay their membership fees, see below.

European and Australian members must pay one sub by Paypal or else we are hit by astronomical bank charges.

How can I pay my membership fees?

Eurozone and Australian members must pay using Paypal. This is to avoid punitive fees involved in currency exchange. Please pay your membership in full. Do not aim to make small monthly payments.

Please enter PayPal here: (Don’t forget to complete the registration form too, at the bottom of this page)

Eurozone members:

Full membership 50 : €50.00EUR – yearly Full membership 55 : €55.00EUR – yearly Full membership 60 : €60.00EUR – yearly Full membership 65 : €65.00EUR – yearly Full membership 70 : €70.00EUR – yearly Full membership 75 : €75.00EUR – yearly Student membership : €45.00EUR – yearly

Australian members:

Full membership 70 : $70.00AUD – yearly Full membership 75 : $75.00AUD – yearly Full membership 80 : $80.00AUD – yearly Full membership 85 : $85.00AUD – yearly Full membership 90 : $90.00AUD – yearly Student membership : $62.00AUD – yearly

For UK members, there are three ways you can pay your membership fees (Don’t forget to complete the registration form too, at the bottom of this page):

1. Standing order.

Please choose this method if possible, if you are a UK member. It offers these benefits:

• For you, a regular small monthly payment, rather than a larger lump sum.

• For ACMAC, the blessing of greater automisation. ACMAC is run on a very tight budget and maximising automisation of this aspect of our work means more time can be spent on supporting members and trying to get more affordable acupuncture out into the world.

These are the account details you will need to set up a standing order:

Account name: ACMAC
Sort code: 30-96-83
Account number: 01188930

Please do not set up a standing order for a small monthly amount from a country outside the UK.

2. Direct transfer to the ACMAC account.

If you are a UK Clinic member or Supporter, please transfer an amount between £40 and £60 to the following account:
Account name: ACMAC
Sort code: 30-96-83
Account number: 01188930
Please put your personal name or clinic name as the reference.

3. Cheque.

If you choose this method, please make your cheque payable to ACMAC, and send it to:

ACMAC
104 Tower Ride
Uckfield
TN22 1NS

Please write your personal name or clinic name on the back of the cheque.

How do I register?

Please complete one of the registration forms below. If you already run, or plan to open, an affordable multibed acupuncture clinic, please complete the ACMAC Clinic Registration Form. If you do not run a multibed clinic, but would like to support the movement and enjoy the other member benefits, please complete the ACMAC Supporter Registration Form (below). (Please note that if you join as a Supporter but then decide at some point to open a multibed clinic, you may have your clinic listed by completing the Clinic Registration Form and whizzing it over to us. Your existing membership fee will remain unchanged.)

ACMAC Clinic Registration Form

Name:*

E-Mail Address:*

Name of clinic:

Address & postcode of your clinic:

Telephone number:

Clinic email address:

Clinic website address:

Names of practitioners:

Appointment system:

Please choose Booked Drop-in Both

What is the charge for the first treatment / consultation?

What is the charge for subsequent treatments?

What treatments do you offer? Please tick all relevant:

Full body acupuncture
Ear / NADA acupuncture
Chinese herbs
Chinese patent herbal remedies
Tui na massage
Chi gung
Moxibustion
Cupping
Facial acupuncture

Payment method and amount:

Please choose standing order £3.33 standing order £3.75 standing order £4.16 standing order £4.58 standing order £5.00 direct transfer £40 direct transfer £45 direct transfer £50 direct transfer £55 direct transfer £60 cheque £40 cheque £45 cheque £50 cheque £55 cheque £60

I have read and understood the information on the Join ACMAC page. I understand and agree to abide by the requirements concerning pricing of treatments and safe practice and rules concerning payment of membership fees.*

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If you would like to send us photos of your clinic, we would be delighted to add them to your clinic page or use them to decorate our site.

ACMAC Supporter Registration Form

Name: *

E-Mail Address: *

Telephone number:

Mailing address:

Payment method and amount:

Please choose standing order £3.33 standing order £3.75 standing order £4.16 standing order £4.58 standing order £5.00 direct transfer £40 direct transfer £45 direct transfer £50 direct transfer £55 direct transfer £60 cheque £40 cheque £45 cheque £50 cheque £55 cheque £60

I have read and understood the information on the Join ACMAC page. I understand and agree to abide by the requirements concerning payment of membership fees. *

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ACMAC Student Registration Form

Name: *

E-Mail Address: *

Full name and address of your college
(incl. postcode and country):

What year of study?

Do you plan to open or work at a multibed clinic when you graduate?

Please choose Yes No

I have read and understood the information on the Join ACMAC page. I understand and agree to abide by the requirements concerning payment of membership fees. *

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Thank you! We are very happy to have you join the ACMAC community. If you have any queries about membership please contact Norman on membership@acmac.net.