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  • What is Integrated Health?
  • Empowering the patient
    • What patients want from doctors
    • Why do patients turn to complementary and alternative medicine?
    • Integrative health in an ideal world?
    • The mind and spirit in health
  • Debates
    • No to integrated medicine on the NHS
    • Yes to integrated medicine on the NHS
    • 'This house believes that complementary medicine does more harm than good'
  • Integration in practice
    • Returning the soul to medicine
    • A health centre at Penair School
    • Rethinking health centres at Budehaven School
    • Integrated health at Cullompton
    • From East London to deepest Devon
    • Traditional medicine and children in general practice
    • Dr Catherine Zollman on integrated medicine in general practice
    • Learning an integrated approach
    • Integrated teaching at Swansea medical school
    • NHS healer
    • Meditation on the NHS
  • Research and evidence
    • Alexander Technique effective for back pain
    • New review of complementary medicines and arthritis
    • Acupuncture for headache - a review
    • Evidence bases for five major complementary therapies
    • Experts speak
      • Placebo and the Power of Belief
      • Confronting the allergy epidemic
      • Creating a National Wellness Service
      • Found in translation: Traditional Chinese Medicine comes to London South Bank University
      • Integrated cancer care and The Seven Levels of Healing
      • Evidence for homeopathy?
      • Art and Wellbeing
      • Hypnotherapy in medical practice
      • US Summit on integrative medicine and the health of the public
      • Integrated health in cancer care
      • A Wellness Fund
      • Performing medicine
  • Healthy living
    • Chronic illness
      • Allergy
        • Allergy in context
        • What are the causes of allergy?
        • Allergy industry
        • What can we do about allergy?
        • The House of Lords report
      • Back pain
        • An integrated approach to back pain
        • Integrated back pain treatment - some case studies
      • Obesity
        • Foresight about obesity
    • Prevention
      • Prevention
      • New year's revolution
      • Health trainers in Liverpool
    • Keeping active
      • Ecotherapy
    • Built environment
      • Why is the built environment a health issue?
      • Building for mind, body and spirit
      • Architecture for ordinary people
    • Nature
      • The Natural Health Service
      • Getting back to the garden
      • Prescribing gardening
    • Nutrition
      • Why don't we eat well?
      • Should we trust what scientists say about food?
      • Artificial food additives
      • Delicious hospital food
• What we do
  • Regulation
    • Regulation news
      • Regulation of medical herbalists, acupuncturists and TCM practitioners
    • Regulation of herbal medicine
  • Integrated health awards
    • Integrated Health Awards 2007
      • Anthroposophy at Park Attwood
      • Healthy beginnings at Midlothian Sure Start
      • Countryside on prescription
      • A tired formula: beating cancer fatigue
      • Mater Green Gym
      • Little Orchids nursery for children with special needs
      • Grimsby Family Action Support Team
      • Rethink Northern Ireland
      • Radical ordinariness: the women's service in Purley
      • Velindre Cancer Centre
      • Plas Y Mor: Integrated Housing Care and Support Scheme
      • The Condition Management Programme and Pathways to Work
      • A Safe Haven
      • Integrated health awards ceremony
    • Integrated Health Awards 2008
      • Integrated Health Awards 2008
      • Winners 2008
      • Success of our 2009 conference
      • Shortlisted projects 2008 in detail
        • The Sara Lee Trust
        • ExtraCare for the third age
        • Escape from the streets for Bristol's female sex workers
        • Wellspring Healthy Living Centre
        • Women's health in South Tyneside
        • Positive Images
        • Hoxton Health
        • The Weathermongers
        • The British School of Osteopathy community clinics
        • Taking the mountain bus
        • Eco Learning at EcoDysgu
        • Acupuncture for osteoarthritis of the knee
        • Depression busting
        • Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust
        • Condition management as a pathway to work
        • Look ok, feel crap?
        • Home Ground in Aberystwyth
        • Fit for Life
        • Getting it together
        • Caring for the carers
        • Green Gyms in Northern Ireland
    • Integrated Health Awards 2010
  • Join our networks
    • GP network
    • Nurses network
    • Pharmacists network
    • students network
    • Physiotherapists network
    • Complementary healthcare practitioners network
    • Pharmcists network chat
      • Pharmacists' network blog
      • Welcome
      • Events
  • Partnerships
    • Work with policy makers
    • The Sarah Key Method
    • Work with medical schools
      • Teaching integrated health at Barts
    • Bravewell fellowship
      • Our new Bravewell Fellow
      • Dr Karine Nohr
• Information library
  • Links directory
  • Publications
    • Regulation
      • A federal approch to complementary therapy regulation
  • Complementary healthcare: a guide
    • Guide to the main complementary therapies
    • Overview of the main complementary therapies
      • Acupuncture
      • Chiropractic
      • Osteopathy
      • Herbal Medicine
      • Alexander Technique
      • Aromatherapy
      • Bowen technique
      • Cranial Therapy
      • Homeopathy
      • Massage therapy
      • Naturopathy
      • Nutritional Therapy
      • Reflexology
      • Reiki
      • Shiatsu
      • Yoga therapy
  • Registration of herbal medicines
    • Herbal monographs from the EMAC
  • Conference material 2009
    • Conference talks: powerpoint slides
    • Conference programme
    • Film: conference highlights 2009
    • Educating tomorrow's nurses
    • Conference blogs
      • Conference blog
• News
  • Book for children separated from their dads sold in aid of FIH
  • Integrated medicine - the thoughts and insights of a final year medical student
  • Interview with Marcus Sorensen
  • The Integrated Student Polyclinic at Westminster University
  • Osteopathy on the front line
  • John Moore's blog
    • GP Tips
• Newsletters
• Dr Heena Patel's blog
  • Something doctor
  • Learning to care
  • Spring
  • Ghettoes medicine
  • Ten minutes
  • Joined up at the hip?
  • More and more about less and less?
  • Heart failure
• Mr Michael Dooley's blog
  • A China Diary
  • Takeoff
  • Twenty million people and no primary care (but it works)
  • At Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Some pictures
  • Suzhuou
  • A train across China
  • Tuina, chi and professional queuing: at the TCM hospital
  • A Chinese wall, a terracotta army – and infertility treatment
  • A day off, Macdonalds and snake wine
  • Infant mortality, baby friendly hospitals and a possible case of 'rice field back'.
• Margaret Hensman's blog
  • How I became interested in integrated care...
  • First define wellness...
  • What's realistic for a client with multiple problems?
  • The psychology of 'normal'
• Dr Anna Forbes blog
  • Finding the 'missing core elements'
  • The ecology of health
  • Doctors of happiness
• Student blog
  • How doctors ask, how doctors think
  • Patients: the most under-used resource in healthcare
  • How patients balance complementary and orthodox medicine
• Health and politics blog
  • Should the state support homeopathy
  • Acupuncture research in the Sunday Telegraph
  • Was homeopathy fairly represented to MPs
  • Political promises - what the manifestoes say
  • A guilty plea in the Chinese TCM poisoning case - and further calls for herbal practitioner regulation
  • Michael Pittilo's letter to the Times
  • Evidence check on homepathy to be published next Monday
  • Parliamentary report on homeopathy out - and the Department of Health's response
  • Acupuncture 'better than drugs for period pain'
  • Is alternative medicine safe? - consumer programme
  • Professor Ernst damaged by FIH?
  • 'This homeopathy row has nothing to do with placebos'
  • Harvard medical students award an 'F' to university for pharmaceutical company ties
  • Doctors and patients must work together
  • Acupuncture and infertility

Events

• FIH integrated health events
  • Delivering complementary therapies in a statutory setting - second date
  • Integrated approaches to health care in China
  • The art and science of oncology
• Events from other organisations
  • British Naturopathic Association Study Day
• Integrated health conference 2010
  • Joining forces: conference 2010

About us

• Our President - HRH The Prince of Wales
• Our trustees
• Management team
• Foundation fellows
• Contacts
• Our vision, mission and values
• Photographs on this site
• The small print
• Accessibility statement
• Feedback
• Professor Mike Pittilo
• Vacancies

Media centre

• Kidney failure and cancer: a regulatory disaster
• Safe conduct?
• Integrated health awards
• EU to fund complementary medicine research
• Herbal medicine - college doctors U turn 'wrong'
• Regulating herbal medicine and acupuncture
• Placebo effect shouldn't be discounted: expert report
• Muddy waters for homeopathy opponents
• Regulating complementary therapies: a critical consultation
• Healthier lives for Cornwall's children
• NICE: a first for integrated health
• Integrated health? you decide
• Women's healthcare: integrating conventional and complementary medicine
• Integrated health award winners
• Integrated medicine: an essential tool in cancer care - 13 May 09
• New integrated health college - 13 May 09
• Peddling bad science
• Sense at last on integrated health - 10 Feb 09
• Integrated Health Awards 2008 - now open - 24 Jun 08
• Widening research methods: BMJ editorial
• FIH launches student network
• Midlothian Sure Start scheme wins UK Integrated Health Award - 20 Mar 08
• Photographs of Integrated Health Awards
• Natural Healthcare Council - 7 Jan 08
• Ayurveda study tour for GPs - 4 Jan 08
• Incapacity benefit - 22 Nov 07
• House of Lords Allergy Report - 24 Sep 07
• Chronic illness - 20 Jun 07
• Integrated Health Awards 2007 - nominations now open - 29 Mar 07
• Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council register goes live
• Protecting patients: new register opens
• Bravewell integrated health summit
• Father Christmas no public health pariah, says FIH
• Homeopathy: where is the patient in scientists’ calculations?
• Integrating conventional and complementary medicine in women’s healthcare
• Self care is not only about over the counter medicines
• Closure of FIH

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