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All-party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare (PGIH) meeting 13th December 2018

A new report, by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare (PGIH), urges the NHS to embrace complementary, traditional and natural medicine to ease the mounting burden on service provision.  

The report, “Integrated Healthcare: Putting the Pieces Together”, recommends a whole person approach to health delivery focusing on prevention and tackling the root cause of illness. It highlights the fact that 70% of total health expenditure in England is associated with treating the 30% of the population with one long-term condition or more. The result of these complex health conditions being the growing problem of polypharmacy (the use of several drugs at the same time) coupled with largely unknown effects of combining drugs over a sustained period of time.

The PGIH paper, the first of its kind, was produced in consultation with 113 complementary and alternative medicine organisations – including the British Homeopathic Association. It goes on to argue that Government needs to devise a strategy to fully assess the degree of drug interactions, determine the long-term health effects on patients, and arrest the trend of over medicating the population.

A significant part of this strategy would be to treat patients as whole persons, with individual needs, rather than with a variety of illnesses that are treated separately.

This strategy should make greater use of natural, traditional and complementary therapies, which are widely used for a variety of conditions and represent an under-utilised resource which could work in tandem with conventional medicine to improve patient outcomes.

David Tredinnick MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group said:

Despite positive signs that ministers are proving open to change, words must translate into reality. For some time our treasured NHS has faced threats to its financial sustainability and to common trust in the system. Other European governments facing similar challenges have considered the benefits of exploring complementary, traditional and natural medicines. If we are to hand on our most invaluable institution to future generations, so should we.

Read the report here (http://icamhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PGIH-Report-Download.pdf).

MPs recommend complementary, traditional and natural medicine to help overstretched NHS

29/01/2019

MPs recommend complementary, traditional and natural medicine to help overstretched NHS

A new report, by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare (PGIH), urges the NHS to embrace complementary, traditional and natural medicine to ease the mounting burden on service provision.   The report, “Integrated Healthcare: Putting the Pieces Together”, recommends a whole person approach to health delivery focusing on prevention and tackling the root cause […]

CCG funding decision on homeopathy

07/08/2018

By removing homeopathic referrals to the Portland Centre for Integrated Medicine (PCIM), Bristol CCG demonstrates a lack of sound decision making because this change will not help improve patient health or balance their books. It will have a negative impact on the lives of those in the care of Bristol CCG as most of the […]

Charity awaits judgement on its NHS England legal challenge

04/05/2018

Charity awaits judgement on its NHS England legal challenge

The British Homeopathic Association (BHA) – a charity that supports patients’ rights to homeopathic treatment on the NHS – is awaiting judgement on its legal challenge to NHS England’s 2017 consultation that ended with a recommendation that GPs should not prescribe homeopathic medicines. After four days of lengthy and detailed legal arguments at the Royal […]

BHA response highlights serious flaws in NHS England’s consultation

15/01/2018

BHA response highlights serious flaws in NHS England’s consultation

Regular visitors to the BHA’s website will know we have launched a legal challenge to NHS England’s consultation on their recommendation that GPs no longer prescribe homeopathy. Here we publish our submission to last year’s consultation.

NHS England and homeopathy

30/11/2017

NHS England and homeopathy

NHS England’s decision that homeopathy should not be prescribed in primary care is disappointing but not unexpected given the fundamentally flawed consultation it conducted around homeopathy. Instead of listening to patients who have benefited from the therapy, or to the doctors who have treated them, NHS England chooses to base its decision on the discredited […]

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