College Surgery in Cullompton offers integration in the fullest sense: an emphasis on natural and architectural beauty; exercise, home remedies and community support to improve the health of many - but also plans for chemotherapy on site for those with cancer.  We explore the best of both worlds.

In 2005 The Lancet published an editorial announcing 'the end of homeopathy'.  Now the European Committee for Homeopathy have struck back arguing that the evidence used in their systematic review was flawed.  We asked Professor George Lewith, who studies complementary therapies, about  the strength of the evidence each way.

Randomised controlled trials suggest that hypnotherapy can work for pain control, anxiety, smoking and for Irritable Bowel Syndrome.  But there have been comparatively few trials in the last four years.  The newly formed Medical School Hypnosis Association has been created to carry out more research and allow medical students to get a better understanding of this approach.

Do you run an NHS GP practice with elements of integration?  Do you attend one as a patient? FIH will be mapping these services in 2009.