ABSTRACT
The British Medical Association (BMA) Board of Science and Education was established to support the Association in its founding aim ‘to promote the medical and allied sciences and to maintain the honour and interests of the medical profession’. Part of the remit of the Board is to undertake research studies on a wide range of key public health issues on behalf of the Association and to provide reports and guidance to the profession and information to the public on health related matters which are of general concern. When endorsed by BMA Council, the reports are published as BMA policy reports to influence doctors, Government, policy makers, the professions, the media and the public. Over the past two decades particularly, the Board has helped to formulate BMA policy on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and published two major reports (BMA, 1986; BMA, 1993).
