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
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