We are celebrating our 1st Birthday! We can’t believe it’s 12 months since we launched the NHS Natural Health School at the NEC in Birmingham. It’s been quite a year, and we couldn’t be happier of our achievements so far. Thank you to everyone who has attended our courses and supported us as  we continue to strive to improve the standards of Complementary Therapy delivery and develop the next generation of Complementary Therapy Experts. Since our launch we have; Had 124,461 visits to our website Held 26 courses Trained 140 students Created and delivered the first NHS Certificate in Complementary Therapy training for Cancer and Occupational Health Pathways Winner of the FHT Complementary Therapy Tutor of the year award 2018 Winner of the Complementary Therapy Award for Furthering Integrated Healthcare 2018 Winner of the Janey Loves Platinum Award Complementary Therapy Wellbeing Charity of the Year 2018 Finalist of the FHT Complementary Therapist of the Year Award  2018 Finalist of the Medipex NHS Innovation Award 2018 Presented at 4 National Conferences Have been published in featured articles by the Voluntary Regulatory Organisations CNHC and FHT, professional journals and the press Been guests on local and BBC Radio Featured guest of  the month for The Therapist Business Club providing vlogs and blogs for members in 2018    

FHT article “NHS role model  – Gwyn Featonby” Gwyn Featonby, 2018 FHT Tutor of the Year and Education Lead at the NHS Natural Health School, talks about developing the first NHS approved Complementary Therapy School. First published in International Therapist, Issue 127, Winter 2019. Read the full article here

The All – Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare (PGIH) has called on Parliament to develop a strategy which includes the integration of Complementary Therapies alongside conventional medicine to ease the burden on the NHS.  The report highlights the huge under-utilised resource of professional therapists, who could work in collaboration with conventional medicine to improve patient outcomes. “The future of healthcare lies in our health system recognising that physical, emotional and mental health are intrinsically linked, and that only by treating a patient as a whole person can we tackle the root cause of illness and deal with the problem of patients presenting with multiple and complex conditions.” We are delighted to have provided clinical evidence to the authors and for our service to have been included in this report.  The recommendations support our own findings in practice. Follow the link below to read in full https://www.cnhc.org.uk/sites/default/files/Downloads/BoardPaper07-Feb2019.pdf