Herbal Medicine Gets the Green Light. See Below
INTEGRATED MEDICINE.
Herbals Medicine can work alongside orthodox medicine.
I would love it if doctors could refer patients to a herbalist. Herbs can work really well and are a great option before the more serious drug treatments are started that often have lifelong impact for the patient.
There are so many issues to discuss here, my main aim as a herbalist is to create links with my local doctors and health professionals to show them what herbs can do, so they can trust me as a herbalist as I have trained for four years and know my limitations. I wish I could shadow a GP or ward rounds.
I am happy to do CPD talks for health professionals
I would really love to have a montly discussion group with local herbalists and doctors, nurses and other heath professionals to talk about health topics.
I refer more detailed enquiries to the National Institute of Medical Herbalsits www.nimh.org.uk
I also have a £10,000 proposal for working with patient groups in a GP surgery in the Community Medicine section Please click here for more details.
Herbal practice gets the green light! (taken from www.nimh.org.uk 28/2/2011)
The National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH) today warmly welcomed the Government’s announcement of the statutory regulation of herbal and traditional medicine practitioners under the Health Professions Council (HPC). Statutory regulation will ensure the continued supply of herbal medicines to practitioners in compliance with new EU regulations.
Statutory regulation of herbalists has had unequivocal backing from the House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee as well as two Department of Health Committees. It has been the subject of two public consultations, the last attracting over 6000 responses – by far the majority of which favored such regulation.
Statutory regulation of this sector will enable regulated herbal practitioners to deliver high quality herbal treatment in conjunction with other health care professionals. The legislation will support safe and professional practice so that the thousands of patients who consult herbalists every year can be assured about the standards of training and practice of the practitioners they see.
Desiree Shelley, President of NIMH said “The Government is to be congratulated on making the right decision to bring in statutory regulation for all those prescribing herbal medicines. Ministers have clearly recognised that this legislation is for patients’ benefit. The National Institute of Medical Herbalists looks forward to working with the Department of Health and Health Professions Council to implement this as soon as possible.”