“…Against a background of diering medical, socio-cultural, economic and legal approaches to treatment, ourselves and colleagues in Russia and France have areas of clinical, scienti®c and technological agreement and certainty, as well as those of disagreement and uncertainty. 4 How then can a simple platform oversee such a diverse ®eld, one that involves so many specialist disciplines? A platform that can inspire peerprofessional as well as public con®dence?…”