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#9
October 2008
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Dear Colleague,
We're delighted to announce that the health philanthropists Bravewell have agreed to fund a second UK GP to attend the prestigious integrative health course for doctors at the University of Arizona.  Dr Karine Nohr describes interests ranging from psychotherapy to Alexander Technique and explains how she's tried to apply some of them in her inner city practice.
At Budehaven School in Cornwall plans are afoot to turn a vacant bungalow near the School into a health centre.  We visit them for a day of blue skies thinking as children and teachers  try to imagine the perfect wellness space.
We also talk to Maggie Dunn, co-Chair of the newly formed Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council.  She describes what the Council has been doing in the first six months of life and announces the opening of the register to some professions in January 2009.
In the regulation world, we follow new developments at the Health Professions Council and news that complementary medicine may become enshrined in the Swiss constitution.
 
 
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Rethinking health centres at Budehaven school
A rural school on the north coast of Cornwall is turning a bungalow into a unique health centre.  We join them as pupils, teachers, counsellors, complementary therapists, architects and truancy officers all come together to create a vision of a 'Life Centre' for pupils.
 
 
 
Dr Karine Nohr
Dr Karine Nohr becomes the second GP to be funded by Bravewell to attend a ground breaking integrative health course in the US.  Here she tells us about the moment in 1985 when she became interested in integrated medicine and how she's tried to use it with her patients since then.
 
 
 
The CNHC
As the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council prepares to open its register in January 2009, co-Chair Maggie Dunn discusses the processes and politics of regulation.
 
 
 
Developments in statutory regulation
The Health Professions Council have just announced that they are recommending the statutory regulation of medical herbalists, acupuncturists and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners to the Department of Health.
 
 
 
Swiss to vote on complementary medicine in constitution
Swiss people will vote next year on whether the right to 'take complementary medicine into consideration' will be enshrined in the Swiss constitution.  If passed, Switzerland will become the first European nation to have made such a move.
 
 
 
 
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