Have you seen a good project and wondered if  you could do the same?  Beginning with our integrated award winners from the past two years, we're creating a map of best practice, highlighting how projects have survived and thrived and where they can give advice and support to others.

We'll be expanding our map over the next couple of months and making it more searchable.

Sophie Gooley is a reflexologist and massage therapist who set up the complementary service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and now works for the Royal Free.  She tells us that complementary practitioners often lack the confidence and clinical essentials to work in hospital settings. The Jex Blake School has been founded to fill that gap.  Find out how you can win a place on their September course.

FIH is now on Twitter!  If you'd like the latest news between our monthly newsletters, or links to stories elsewhere on the web, follow us now.

 The James Lind Alliance has carried out research into the researchers - how do topics for research gets chosen?  Do clinicians and their patients get much of a say?  

Explore our list of higher education courses in complementary therapies which are accredited by professional bodies.  Updated for 2009, it's a great place to start in choosing a course.

250 GP practices across North East Essex are now offering referrals to independent chiropractors, osteopaths and physiotherapists on the NHS.