March 2009

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March 2009

Dear Colleague,

This month's issue offers you the chance to connect. Join us at our first Integrated Health Conference at the King's Fund to discover more about the integrated approach. Sign up for our free FIH networks - now covering pharmacists as well as doctors and nurses, with complementary therapists due to be added shortly. Meet the Foundation Fellows who are supporting our work. Watch films of a groundbreaking conference to promote integration in the US. Follow Dr Heena Patel as she teaches her medical students to care properly for patients. Or simply explore the many projects which bring integrated approaches to a vast array of people in many different life situations - from drug-addicted sex workers on the streets of Bristol, to pensioners in the most remote areas of Wales.

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	Integrated health projects - from the streets of Bristol to the mountains of Wales Read more about some of the shortlisted projects for our integrated health awards. In Bristol, the charity One25 provides an integrated service to help women sex workers get off the streets. Meanwhile the The British School of Osteopathy offers free support to HIV patients and the homeless in Southwark; a GP practice in St Albans offers acupuncture as an alternative to knee surgery; Hoxton Health works with the NHS in East London to bring cheap complementary therapies and exercise classes to those who couldn't otherwise afford it. And far from the madding crowd EcoDysgu mixes healing with eco projects for the troubled young, and Montgomeryshire Age Concern supports the old in the remotest corners of Wales.



	Sign up for our integrated health conference Doctor or nurse? health or wellbeing professional? patient group representative? Come to our conference at the King's Fund on 13th and 14th May to hear more about integrated health, what it is and how it works. Hear how the integrated doctors and nurses of tomorrow are being educated, learn about making sense of evidence in integrated practice, and explore examples of successful projects.



	Watch the film: integrative medicine in the US A huge audience gathered at the Institute of Medicine, the leading US independent health body, for a two day conference on integrative medicine. We bring you filmed highlights, including an hour-long look at the science of integrated health.



	Join our networks The new, free-to-join FIH networks are gathering pace. If you are a medical doctor or nurse or pharmacist, sign up to our networks to stay in touch with what's happening in the world of integrated health. Our network for complementary practitioners will be launched very shortly.



	Blogging doctor: Learning to care 'My husband to be came from downtown Birmingham with an accent I disliked and I was a Ugandan refugee. English was my fifth language. We listened and spoke to our patients in such different styles'. Dr Heena Patel compares her education in patient history-taking to the more streamlined approach today.



	Meet our Foundation fellows An impressive cross-section of the great and the good from the medical and complementary worlds are helping and advising FIH. Learn more about our foundation fellows and their spheres of expertise - from obstetrics to allergy, cancer and general practice.

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