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It’s Official! British Government backs NHS Homeopathy
Remember the date: 26th July, 2010
Today will be remembered as a red letter day in the history of British homeopathy.
In a landmark decision today, the Government emphatically backed the people’s right to NHS homeopathy.
A low quality, biased and deeply flawed report, signed by a small handful of MPs constituting the Science and Technology Committee (S&TCo) had sought to thwart the will of those GPs wanting to send patients for NHS homeopathy by calling for the removal of funding of NHS homeopathy. NHS-funded homeopathy has existed since several homeopathic hospitals were invited to become part of the NHS at its formation in 1948. Even the BMA showed its disdain for a sizeable minority of doctors and patients when it called for a ban on NHS homeopathy at its annual conference last month.
In particular, the Society is glad to see the Government place the emphasis on Primary Care Trusts to choose whether to provide homeopathy on the NHS, taking account of local need. The Society supports patients’ right to choose homeopathy as a treatment option.
Zofia Dymitr, Society Chairwoman said: “We fully endorse the government’s statement “The Department of Health wholly supports the concept of the informed patient. The Society is aware of patient demand for homeopathy, and respects patients’ capacity to make informed choices about their healthcare.”
Society of Homeopaths registered members (RSHoms) meet robust education and registration standards and agree to practice in accordance with the Society’s Code of Ethics. The Society would like to see more patients having access to homeopathy on the NHS, and can provide the evidence that homeopathy is an effective and cost effective treatment option.
The Society also welcomes the report’s acknowledgement of the long tradition homeopathy has enjoyed in Europe, and that this Government, in line with EU policy, does not wish to constrain consumer choice, or to regulate homeopathic medicines at UK level.
To see research evidence for homeopathy:
http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/whats-new/research/default.aspx
To see the full government response:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_117810
I don't know how, but homeopathy really does work
More of a mystery is why scientists continue to debunk it despite mounting evidence that homeopathy is effective
was a dedicated scientist about to begin a PhD in neuroscience when, out of the blue, homeopathy bit me on the proverbial bottom.
Science had been my passion since I began studying biology with Mr Hopkinson at the age of 11, and by the age of 21, when I attended the dinner party that altered the course of my life, I had still barely heard of it. The idea that I would one day become a homeopath would have seemed ludicrous.
That turning point is etched in my mind. A woman I'd known my entire life told me that a homeopath had successfully treated her when many months of conventional treatment had failed. As a sceptic, I scoffed, but was nonetheless a little intrigued.
She confessed that despite thinking homeopathy was a load of rubbish, she'd finally agreed to an appointment, to stop her daughter nagging. But she was genuinely shocked to find that, after one little pill, within days she felt significantly better. A second tablet, she said, "saw it off completely". Read entire article here
Support for homeopathy on the NHS
The Society of Homeopaths supports its colleagues in the medical profession who are campaigning to keep homeopathy available on the NHS.
There are approximately 600 doctors in the UK who use homeopathy, over 55,000 patients a year are seen through homeopathic hospitals, many with conditions not helped through other specialists in the NHS.
The cost of homeopathy on the NHS is low - just 0.001% of the £11 billion drugs budget. Homeopathic appointment and hospital costs are approximately £4 million per annum, compared with the cost of anti depressants alone which was £291.5million in 2007.
The Society further notes that in 2005, a report commissioned by Prince Charles and carried out by economist Christopher Smallwood found that following a pilot study where patients were treated with complementary and alternative medicines, there was a 30 per cent drop in the number of consultations with GPs and a saving in prescription drugs bills of 50 per cent.1
In 2005, the largest service evaluation of homeopathic hospital
treatment reported that 70 per cent of 6,500 follow-up patients
experienced improvement in their health.
Yet the British Medical Association (BMA) is this week voting on a series of motions calling for an end to homeopathy on the NHS, without any consultation with its own members who practice homeopathy, or the tens of thousands of people who depend on homeopathy on the NHS.
David Tredinnick MP has tabled an Early Day Motion stating that the BMA “has overstepped its remit” and that “an integrated NHS, which employs the best from the orthodox and complementary, and which empowers patients, could deliver better and more cost-effective outcomes at a time of financial prudence; and calls on the Government to maintain its policy of allowing decision-making on individual clinical interventions, including homeopathy, to remain in the hands of local NHS service providers and practitioners who are best placed to know their community's needs.”
The Society also notes that homeopathy has been available on the National Health Service since it was created in 1948, when five hospitals were already well established, and were handed over to the NHS to be run under the new system.
Members of the Society and patients will be among those protesting before the BMA conference, along with members of The British Homeopathic Association and the Faculty of Homeopathy (whose members are medically qualified health professionals).
They are concerned that their members who are also members of the BMA were not consulted, and have been refused permission to address the conference.
1.Smallwood, C. The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the NHS. Research commissioned by HRH Prince of Wales. FreshMinds, October 2005, p.56.
2.Spence D, Thompson E and Barron S. Homeopathic treatment for chronic disease: A 6-Year, university-hospital outpatient observational study. J Altern Complement Med 2005; 5: 793-8.
The Society of Homeopaths
Established in 1978, The Society of Homeopaths is the largest body of professional homeopaths in the UK. Our Registered Members (RSHoms) are qualified, registered and fully insured and have agreed to practise in accordance with our Code of Ethics & Practice.
For more information or to set up an interview with Chair of the
Board of Directors, Zofia Dymitr please contact Pamela Stevens at The
Society of Homeopaths on 0845 450 6611 or
pamela_stevens@homeopathy-soh.org
Why homeopathy and what is it anyway?
Flu VACCINES and informed CHOICE
In Australia, childhood vaccines are not compulsory nor can parents lose any government entitlements if they choose not to vaccinate or to vaccinate selectively. Many parents feel great pressure and fear around this issue however and would like more information about what their choices are in relation to keeping their families healthy. To learn more about the actual risks of both diseases and the vaccines intended to prevent them, come along to this informative evening sponsored by the AVN.
SHOULD AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN BE IMMUNIZED FOR INFLUENZA - WHAT ARE THE RISKS?
In Australia, the influenza vaccine has been promoted free to persons 65 years and older for nearly ten years. In 2008 the Western Australian Government promoted the influenza vaccine free to children from 6 months of age to 5 years. The government encouraged parents to vaccinate their children. This talk examines the risk of flu to children, the effectiveness of the vaccine and the additional risks to children's health of adding another vaccine to the childhood schedule. A schedule which now includes 12 vaccines before 12 months of age.
Judy Wilyman - PhD Researcher Murdoch University
Flu vaccines - nothing to sneeze about
To date, more than 300 serious reactions to the current seasonal flu shot have been reported in children under the age of 5 with one child known to have died within hours of being vaccinated. All the indications are that this figure grossly underestimates the actual number of reactions. In her talk, Meryl Dorey will discuss how vaccines are intended to work and why it is that they often don't. She will talk about the known side effects of childhood and adult shots and reveal that according to the Australian government, as few as 1% of vaccine reactions ever get reported, leading to a belief that they are perfectly safe.
Meryl Dorey - Media Spokesperson for the Australian Vaccination Network and
Editor of Living Wisdom magazine.
This seminar is for anyone who is concerned about their child's health. If you have heard about the recent upsurge in childhood allergies, asthma, eczema, autism and behavioural problems and want to know how vaccines are associated with these conditions in the medical literature, please come along.
Date: Tuesday, June 1st 2010
Venue State Library of Western Australia, Alexander Library Building, Perth
Cultural Centre, 25 Francis Street, Perth
(seating is extremely limited so pre-booking is recommended)
Time 6:30 PM for a 7:00 PM start
Cost: $10.00 per person / $15.00 for two
For further details, please phone Meryl Dorey on 1800 007 468 or Judy Wilyman on 0423 672 755 or visit www.avn.org.au
Kate, Tom & Helen at the Brighton Marathon
The Societys response to the report of the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee
Evidence Check: Homeopathy
The Society of Homeopaths, the UKs largest regulator of homeopaths, roundly rejects the findings of the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee Evidence Check: Homeopathy and has grave concerns about the processes that led to its report issued today.
Central to these concerns was a clarification issued at the outset of the oral evidence check by the Chair of the Committee itself, Phil Willis MP, who stated :
"because there seems to be a little confusion about the nature of the work that we are doing, this is not an inquiry into whether homeopathy works or not. This is an inquiry which follows a series of evidence checks across a number of government departments to see whether in fact there was any evidence to support the Government's policy towards homeopathy. I want to make that absolutely clear."
Nevertheless, what then followed was clearly an inquiry into whether homeopathy works or not, with those giving oral evidence including a journalist who was investigated by the Press Complaints Commission for his previous and unsubstantiated comments about homeopaths; a charity that has long publicly opposed homeopathy along with one of its key funders and a PCT that had already decommissioned homeopathy as one of its services.
Notable by their absence were any patient representatives who had used homeopathy or a PCT currently commissioning homeopathy.
The Society of Homeopaths, as the largest body representing professional homeopaths, applied to give oral evidence alongside its written evidence but was refused.
The Society also had serious concerns about the lines of questioning during the evidence gathering, many of which it considered to be outside the remit of the committee and which included a number that were directly related to The Society itself which it was not permitted to answer.Its subsequent letter to the committee plus a chase up remain unanswered.
In summarising that there is no evidence for homeopathy, the committee inexplicably overlooks the fact that, by the end of 2009, there were 74 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of homeopathy published in peer-reviewed journals which describe statistically significant results, from which firm conclusions can be drawn. Of these RCTs comparing homeopathy either with placebo or established conventional treatments, 63 were positive for homeopathy and 11 were negative.
In its press release today, the Committee advises the government that prescribing pure placebos is bad medicine.Clearly, it is not aware that a 2008 meta-analysis involving 35 clinical trials and 5,000 patients suffering from depression found that commonly prescribed antidepressants have little more effect than 'dummy' placebo pills.
And yet, prescriptions for anti-depressants are at record levels, with 31 million written in 2006 at a cost to the NHS of almost 300million.
To put this in context, the NHS spends 11 billion on its annual drugs budget.Of that, the annual bill for homeopathic remedies is 152,000.
Chief Executive, Paula Ross, said the cost of this evidence check must surely outweigh the paltry 152,000 Minister of State, Mike OBrien reported is spent on homeopathic medicines each year by the NHS.The public clearly wants homeopathy and instead of funding this evidence check, we would have preferred to see the government put money into much needed research into how actually homeopathy works.The evidence shows that homeopathy is effective beyond placebo.Scientists have yet to understand how.
Notes to editors
Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a system of medicine which is based on treating the individual with highly diluted substances given in mainly tablet form, which triggers the bodys natural system of healing. Based on their experience of their symptoms, a homeopath will match the most appropriate medicine to the patient.
The Society of Homeopaths
Established in 1978, The Society of Homeopaths is the largest body of professional homeopaths in the UK.Our Registered Members (RSHoms) are qualified, registered and fully insured and have agreed to practise in accordance with our Code of Ethics & Practice.
For more information or to set up an interview with Chair of the Board of Directors, Jayne Thomas, please contact Pamela Stevens at The Society of Homeopaths on 0845 450 6611 or 07504 927689 or pamela_stevens@homeopathy-soh.org
Homeopathy Evidence Check: A response from the profession
Statement from Association of Registered Homeopaths
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN HOMEOPATHY 2010 CONFERENCE: GIVING YOU THE PROOF YOU NEED!
Homeopathy is under attack – as we all know – and those attacks are increasing
How often have we heard claims such as:
Homeopathy is nothing more than placebo!
It doesn't work and homeopaths are cynically ripping off vulnerable people!
Would you like to get really up to date with the reality of the situation – would you like to know exactly what the current state of research is in the field?
The "Scientific Research in Homeopathy 2010" Conference will give you the proof you need to effectively counter these arguments. We’ll send you home feeling inspired, energized (and dare I even say potentized!) and full of confidence that you can do your bit to help promote homeopathy and get the truth out there. Furthermore, you'll be more confident as a practitioner, as you'll know - absolutely - that there is a vast amount of high quality scientific evidence supporting your work.
This event is for homeopaths, student homeopaths and other CAM practitioners and offers an excellent opportunity to network with your peers. Important: This is a not-for-profit event and ticket prices are being kept to the bare minimum to cover costs.
What is covered in the Conference?
Following on from the extremely successful "Scientific Research in Homeopathy" conference in June 2008 we have a new and totally updated programme for you:
Our line up of top PhD research scientists will tell you about all the latest research in the homeopathic field and will cover both outcome studies and human, animal and in-vitro placebo based random controlled trials which prove once and for all that homeopathy is so much more effective than placebo - and is a viable therapeutic tool. Click here to see our speaker line-up
We also have respected homeopaths who will tell you all about the amazing success of homeopathy in fighting some of the most vicious pandemics and epidemics over the last 200 + years.
We'll look at the ways in which hypotheses from the field of quantum physics may help us to draw nearer to developing a plausible mechanism of action.
A successful organic farmer will tell us how his very large herd did extremely well on homeopathy and why keeping his herd well with homeopathic remedies was an excellent commercial decision for him. (This has interesting implications for the “It’s all just a placebo” argument!)
There will be plenty of opportunity for questions throughout the day and we'll have a panel discussion at the end of the conference to clarify issues further and to discuss ways forward.
CPD points from all the major organisations will be available - although this event is run entirely independently of any organisation.
Please note that I have had enormous numbers of emails from people wanting to come to this event - so please do book right away and forward this invitation to your friends and colleagues.
Many thanks
Jayney
Jayney Goddard FCMA, Lic.LCCH, Dip.ACH
PS if you prefer to order tickets offline please ring us on 0845 129 8434 (UK)
Testimonials from the last "Scientific Research in Homeopathy" conference:
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"I wanted to congratulate you for organising a truly fabulous conference. It was really empowering to hear from such inspiring speakers - I am really looking forward to attending similar events in the future."
"It was a stunningly brilliant day and the final speaker before lunch was simply perfect! I look forward to receiving details of how I can get the downloads and assure you that I will use every opportunity to promote the conference. I look forward to the next one already!"
"Very many thanks for organising the conference. It was certainly the best I've attended for ages, and well worth the trek down from Wales."
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"Thanks for organising a great conference. It was wonderful to hear what all those interesting speakers had to say and all that evidence gathered together in one place was fantastic. It produced quite a synergy."
"You are a true inspiration and the conference gave me so much on
many different levels - all those professional and passionate people.
To think I nearly missed attending!"
Inspiring Cases
Kate will be one of the guest speakers at Inspiring Cases on May 22nd in Perth. A total of 30 guest speakers from complementary medicine will share their most inspiring cases. Download brochure here
Seminar attendance hopes to raise $40,000 for the HOH Rajasthan Women’s Clinic in India
Monies raised on the day will be donated to HOH Project HOPE massage clinic and education centre in the Philippines.
References of homeopathy's effectiveness in practice:
In the Department of Health's Northern Ireland CAM Pilot study 2008: Patients receiving homeopathic treatment reported an average 54% improvement in their health and well being, often after long standing conventional treatment had failed.
10 out of 12 GPs surveyed had a more positive view of the potential for CAM within primary care, with all wishing to continue with the option of referring their patients to CAM.
In 99% of patient cases, the GP said that they would be willing to refer the same patient, or another patient, to the Get Well UK service.
In 98% of patient cases, the GP said they would be willing to recommend the service to another GP.
Evaluation of a CAM Pilot Project in Northern Ireland (2008) D McDade2008
1. Observational study Bristol Homeopathic Hospital. Over 23,000 patient attendances in a 6-year period, 70% of patients reported improved health, 50% major improvement of wide range of conditions.
Spence DS, Thompson EA, Barron SJ (2005). Homeopathic treatment for chronic disease: a 6-year university-hospital outpatient observational study. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 11:793-798.
2. 500-patient survey at the RLHH showed many patients were able to reduce or stop conventional medication following homeopathic treatment.
Sharples F, van Haselen R, Fisher P (2003). NHS patients' perspective on complementary medicine: a survey. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 11:243-248
3. Pilot study published 2008. 1602 follow-up patient appointments for 235 separate medical complaints at all five NHS homeopathic hospitals collected together over one-month period. Many patients had multiple pathologies. 34% of patients reported an improvement that affected their daily living after 2 appointments. After six appointments 59% reported improvement.
Thompson EA, et al (2008). Towards standard setting for patient-reported outcomes in the NHS homeopathic hospitals. Homeopathy, 97:114-121.
3.5 Outcome survey at the Liverpool department of homeopathic medicine over a 12 month period in 1999-2000.
1100 patients; 76.6% reported an improvement and 60.3% reported major improvement. 52% of 814 patients taking conventional treatment were able to reduce or stop conventional medication.
Richardson WR.(2001) Patient benefit survey: Liverpool Regional Department of Homeopathic medicine. British Homeopathic Journal 90 158-162.
Homeopathy and acupuncture backed for NHS funding. Pulse magazine for GPs Pulse.co.uk 17 Feb 2009
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Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century - www.hmc21.org
An important part of our campaign is to give people a voice through signing the declaration "Homeopathy worked for me!"
The Declaration is to be handed in on Wednesday 24 February. Go to the Lobby page for more information
UK residents can still sign the Declaration here: Homeopathy worked for me!
Everyone in the UK of any age who has benefited from homeopathy can add their name to this declaration.
If you have a problem with the link, then you can paste the following URL into your browser:
www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?C3E78B91C3859F98
Residents of other countries can support the Declaration by signing here: International support
Everyone of any age from anywhere else in the world who has benefited from homeopathy can sign this declaration.
If you have a problem with the link, then you can paste the following URL into your browser:
www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?8AAEC2D889CBDCDE
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Arnica Montana was an exhibitor at the Langley Park Perth Polo competition
on the 11th & 12th December 2009
Photos taken by and © Perrina Bozanic
Do you want homeopathy available on the NHS?
Homeopathy: Tinctures or a trick of the mind?
Click Here to view an interesting interview where Richard Dawkins interviews Dr Peter Fisher from the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital - Oxford professor and arguably the world's most famous atheist, Richard Dawkins takes a look at Homeopathy. We will leave it up to you to make up your own mind. ** also see Link below about the Memory of Water!!
Click here to view an interesting film about water with much for us to think about regarding healing.
The Epidemic Of 'Medical Child Abuse'
B.C. may suspend seasonal flu shots
UK Compulsory Vaccination Imminent May 29, 2009
There Is No Anti-Vaccine Movement May 29, 2009
Swine Flu Shot Link to Nerve Disease, Vaccine contents
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[P4H] Phenoxyethanol now in Vaccines!
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Serious Attack on Homeopathy
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School of Homeopathy goes to the movies
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Drugs agency grants its first licence to homoeopathic product
The United Kingdom’s drugs agency has given a licence to the makers of a homoeopathic product, despite scientists and researchers saying that no evidence shows that it works.
Since September 2006 the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been allowed to grant licences to traditional therapies if their use "is plausible on the basis of long standing use and experience" and no evidence shows that they cause harm.
At the end of last month, Nelsons Arnicare Arnica 30c pillules became the first product in the UK to be given such a licence by the agency, which will enable its manufacturers to make therapeutic claims for it.
Edzard Ernst, the UK’s only professor of complementary medicine, said that the agency’s national rules scheme was "making a mockery of evidence based medicine."
On the packaging, the makers will be able to describe the product as "a homoeopathic medicinal product used.
'According to the drugs agency the results of clinical trials are not required to support applications for marketing authorisation under the National Rules scheme. Guidance for the manufacturers of Homeopathic products says 'Because the philosophy of homeopathy and the nature of the products, it is difficult to establish efficacy for homeopathic products for the indications sought. The guidance also states that indications are limited to the relief of treatment of minor symptoms or minor conditions because the rules do not require rigorous clinical data. A spokesperson for the agency said that as the applicant (Nelson's pharmacy London UK) was able to meet the above mentioned criteria for their application the indication was accepted.
This is the really crucial important bit:
The National Rules scheme was based on a 2001 European Directive which said 'The long tradition of the medicinal product makes it possible to reduce the need for clinical trials insofar as the efficacy of the medicinal product is plausible on the basis of longstanding use and experience. Preclinical tests do not seem necessary where the medicinal product on the basis of the information on its traditional use proves not to be harmful in specified conditions of use.
The drugs agency furthur stated 'We feel that our work benefits both the general public,by strengthening the public health protection of users of homeopathic medicinal products, and the homeopathic industry by levelling the playing field and increasing the range of products that can be marketed.'
As therapeutic indications can now be permitted on the labelling this opens up the practice of Homeopathy to new users and also gives it credibility as a safe natural complement to conventional medicine.
At last! The voice of common sense! I am as exasperated as most Europeans with the EU directives but for once it is has shown its true worth as reflecting the opinion of us all in the Northern Hemisphere - long time users of Homeopathy. A real achievement and one to be much celebrated.
A tragic death leads to calls for compulsory vaccination
Channel 7 - Sunday Night Program
Tonight (Sunday 26/04/2009), Channel 7's Sunday Night program, a 60-minutes wanna-be complete with Mike Carlson at the helm, presented the most one-sided, offensive show on the subject of vaccination that I have ever seen - and trust me - I've seen heaps of them.
Using the tragic death of little Dana McCaffery (see the previous AVN E-Newsletter), this program has basically said that parents who don't vaccinate are just short of being murderers. We are going to cause polio to come back, we are responsible for the deaths of infants and we are really, really stupid.
While I have great sympathy for Dana's parents, the reporting was incredibly biased - even to the point of saying that Jackson Butler, who bravely agreed to appear on this program with his mother, Belinda, had a vaccine reaction that was nothing more than a rash. He is still being treated today, at 13 years of age, for the effects of the vaccines he received as a child. The way in which his situation was minimised was nothing short of shocking!
And then, there was the doctor who treated Dana, Chris Ingall. He is a North Coast Paediatrician whose views on vaccination are very well known in this area. He was also my son, Matthew's paediatrician. Matthew was vaccine injured as a child - first at 2 months of age (our GP told us that he would leave the whooping cough portion of the vaccine out after he had 5-6 hours of high pitched screaming, ran a very high fever and stopped breathing in his sleep) and then, at 18 months after his MMR. Matthew developed severe breathing problems from that first shot. He had obstructive sleep apnoea (still does at over 20 years of age) and we were referred to Chris Ingall to try and treat it.
When Chris found out that Matthew had only had one whooping cough vaccine, he decided that he didn't have apnoea at all. No - he had whooping cough. He then proceeded to tell my husband Ken and I that we should get Matthew the other two shots!
Now, this was at the beginning of our search for information - we hadn't even managed to find much about vaccinations or disease at this point. Despite that, when he told us that we should vaccinate, the first thing we said was - but he has had bad reactions to that shot. He then proceeded to tell us that Matthew needed the vaccine because he had whooping cough. But, we asked, if he has whooping cough, what good is giving him the vaccine going to do? I can't remember what his answer was, but even then, we thought- what crap! And we refused.
This is the sort of nonsense these 'medical experts' are spreading - the sort of dangerous, illogical treatments they are pushing. And their word is law - and our side gets no credibility despite having the information and research on our side.
Please write to the program using the contact form at the top of this page http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/ - we need an avalanche of support for this one - I despair about the cover up, the children who will be injured by these shots and the way in which our organisation and the families who have been hurt by vaccines have been portrayed.
In addition, please vote in the poll on the same page above. They are asking whether or not vaccination should be compulsory. Please give a strong and resounding NO!
Integration of Homeopathy into Primary Care
by Rachel Roberts BSc(Hons) MCH RSHom Research Consultant for the Society of Homeopaths
Published in the National Health Executive journal, December 2008
The potential role of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies in the future of the National Health Service is an issue which cannot be ignored. Patients vote with their feet, and the popularity of CAM therapies is clear. An estimated 5.75million people a year in the UK seek treatment from a CAM practitioner and approximately one in four members of the public would like to access complementary medicine on the NHS.1
In 2000, a House of Lords Select Committee report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine listed homeopathy as a “group one” therapy, along with osteopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture and herbal medicine. Group one therapies are recognised as having their own diagnostic approach and treatment methods.2
Homeopathy is well-established in the UK, having been available through the NHS since its inception in 1948. In addition to the five NHS-funded homeopathic hospitals (in Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and Tunbridge Wells), over 400 GPs use homeopathy in their everyday practice3 and the Society of Homeopaths (the largest body representing professional homeopaths in the UK) has 1,500 registered members. However by comparison with European countries, the UK’s homeopaths are a relatively untapped resource.4 One reason for this could be the misconception that homeopathy lacks a scientific evidence base.
Click Here to read the FULL article
UK London Autism Rally Saturday 28th March Downing St.
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How 'junk medicine' could kill you!
Would you prefer a breakfast of bran flakes and soy-milk over a nice,
hot plate of good ol' bacon and eggs?
Do you like going to the doctor?
Have you ever seen a jogger smile (I haven't)?
If you answered "no" to these questions, you're a prime candidate for
conversion from the "junk medicine" dogma we've all had crammed down
our throats for the last 30 years or more.
With my new, comprehensive report, "Big Secrets Behind Junk Medicine,"
you'll learn how to avoid the unhealthy "conventional wisdom" that's
harming us-and how to stay feeling young, vigorous and pain-free while
all those gullible fanatics suffer.
Think about it. If you "are what you eat," which would you rather be:
a hard-charging steer or a lifeless lump of tofu?
Keep reading, and I'll tell you more..
Don't let the milk industry murder you and your family!
In spite of the efforts of Big Dairy and their pals in state houses
across the U.S., raw milk's popularity continues to grow. But now it
seems that the gloves have come off in this fight. Recently, a
Pennsylvania farmer was arrested literally handcuffed and led away by state police
because he was selling raw milk.
As hard as this is to believe, somehow I'm not surprised.
Mark Nolt, a Mennonite farmer, has since been found guilty and fined
$4,040 for his "crimes." The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
dropped the hammer on Nolt and closed his business after he declined
to renew his permit to sell raw milk. "They swooped in like a bunch
of Vikings, handcuffed me, and stole $30,000 worth of my milk,
cheese, and butter," Nolt said.
It sounds like he was farming weapons-grade plutonium, doesn't it?
But I'm sure that in a state with a large agricultural base, Big
Dairy has an incredibly powerful lobby in Pennsylvania, and they
chose to make an example out of Nolt.
It seems that Nolt was the victim of a Department of Agriculture sting:
Pennsylvania DoA employees testified at the trial that they'd
purchased raw milk and products made from raw milk from Nolt at his
stand at an area farmer's market at least three times in 2007.
At least 60 supporters protested outside of the Cumberland County
Pennsylvania courthouse while the conviction came down. I'm gratified
that there was at least some stink made about this incident.
Granted, 60 protesters isn't exactly a throng, but hopefully the
needless Gestapo tactics employed will help stir some needed anger about this issue.
Jonas Stoltzfus, president of the Pennsylvania Independent Consumers
and Farmers Association put it best when he said of the Nolt
protest, "This issue has very little to do with raw milk and health,
and everything to do with freedom."
Amen to that.
Raw milk is one of my pet causes. The stuff is loaded with health
benefits. It's got lots of vitamin D, and it also contains
probiotics, good bacteria that aid digestion and can attack and
destroy harmful pathogens. But in spite of its many upsides, raw milk
is a tough sell for many people because of Big Dairy propaganda.
That the federal government and the majority of states prohibit the
sale of raw milk to the public is nothing new. But the iron- fisted
tactics used against Nolt represent a dark turn in this battle.
Integration of homeopathy into primary care
The potential role of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies in the future of the National Health Service is an issue which cannot be ignored. Patients vote with their feet, and the popularity of CAM therapies is clear. An estimated 5.75million people a year in the UK seek treatment from a CAM practitioner and approximately one in four members of the public would like to access complementary medicine on the NHS.1
OBITUARY - WILLIAM HERBERT TANKARD-HAHNEMANN
1922-2009
Great great great grandson of Samuel Hahnemann
It is with great sadness we report that Mr. William Tankard-Hahnemann passed away peacefully at his home in Crowborough, East Sussex on 12th January 2009, his 87th birthday.
Homeopathy 4 Everyone - Ezine
Jan 2009 Edition - Read online here
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