The wellness programme - Margaret Hensman's blog

Margaret HensmanFirst Margaret Hensman was a nurse, then she was a reflexologist.  In recent months she's brought her experience of NHS and complementary experience together in the creation of the Wellness Programme - a pilot programme offering care, support, education and therapy.

Margaret will be blogging about the results of  the pilot for FIH over the next six months. She begins though, by telling us what has driven her career choices and why the NHS is less good at supporting the chronically ill.

  • Mar
    30

    The psychology of 'normal'

    Margaret Hensman | 0 comments

    Unravelling the assumptions and emotional causes of health choices. How long does it take to assess someone's health needs?

  • Feb
    26

    What's realistic for a client with multiple problems?

    Margaret Hensman | 1 comment

    A single parent with a Body Mass Index of 48 (i.e. seriously overweight) who also has advanced arthritis and is caring for a severely autistic child who never sleeps for more than two hours at a time will find it almost impossible to look after their own health and wellbeing.  

  • Jan
    25

    First define wellness...

    Margaret Hensman | 1 comment

    'A person who has no diagnosable physical or mental illness can feel a profound lack of wellbeing and someone with a serious illness can experience a profound sense of wellbeing'.  As Margaret Hensman worked to create the wellness programme, she had to think carefully about what the word actually means.

  • Dec
    08

    From nurse to reflexologist: how I became interested in integrated care...

    Margaret Hensman | 4 comments

    'Originally very sceptical about all complementary therapies it was personally experiencing the benefits of reflexology that opened my mind to the therapeutic possibilities of complementary medicine.'

The wellness programme - Margaret Hensman's blog