Seminars
Sue Pash and Alison Brown
Sue and Alison are holding a CPD event on
Saturday 2nd October 2010 – 1 day SEMINAR
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT for Therapists/Practitioners
New to practice or just need to review your goals?
What are your next steps? Do you have a business plan? Where do you practice? How do you promote yourself and your business? Do you know about charging? If these questions are important to you and you would like to know what makes a practice successful, this seminar could be a wise investment to your career in complementary therapy.
Who is the speaker?
The speaker is Damian Etherington. With over 7 years experience in assisting the business development of health practitioners in the UK and Europe, Damian has a keen insight into practically integrating practice management within the health field. As well as his speaking/training engagements, Damian also runs the UK branch for Energetix, a leader in the field of professional nutritional supplements, herbal and homeopathic remedies, and business support.
Why Practice Management for Therapists/Practitioners?
Although there are marketing and sales workshops and seminars out there, they are rarely focused on the complementary therapist. It is Practice Management that is key to the success of a complementary therapy business, and Damian’s goal is to introduce practical steps to understand practice management - whatever your chosen discipline.
Topics include:
· Practice Management – what is it and how does it relate to your new complementary therapy business?
· Role of the practice owner
· Purpose of a business plan
· How goals relate to growth
· Special considerations for new therapists - Where will I practice? - Renting rooms, sharing or on your own.
· Letting potential clients know about you and your practice
· Is advertising effective?
· Identify components of a successful practice
· Identify pitfalls of practices
· Value of a natural pharmacy
Who can attend?
Any qualified or soon to graduate therapist/practitioner, or any therapist wanting to review their practice goals. We aim to provide a relaxed and supportive day to help you on your journey. Hosts Sue and Alison are both SNHS graduates, and look forward to welcoming you to this popular seminar.
What is the investment?
Your investment is £70 to include all course materials, and refreshments. Lunch not included. A deposit is required. A certificate of attendance for CPD is available
Where will it be held?
The venue is the Somerton area of Somerset, easy access from A37, A303 and M5.
Want to book or need further information?
Please email Sue at snhs@therapynetworkonline.co.uk
www.therapynetworkonline.co.uk.
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Workshops
Workshops and training days organised by Sue Pash and Richard Murphy in Somerset.
All SNHS course subjects can be catered for
CLICK HERE for details.
Meridian Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy & Past Life Therapy Workshops and Training Days
Workshops and training days in Colchester.
Conducted by : Antony J. Edwards DHyp DHP FRSH MIAH MBIH MAMT
CLICK HERE for details.
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Westminster Health Keynote Seminar
Stroke care: next steps for the National Stroke Strategy
with
Professor Roger Boyle
National Director for Heart Disease and Stroke, Department of Health
and
Jon Barrick
Chief Executive, The Stroke Association
Morning, Thursday 4th November, 2010
Central London
Dear Ms Vaughn-Griffiths
I am writing to invite you to attend the above seminar. Please note there is a charge for most delegates, although no one is excluded on the basis of ability to pay (see below).
Seminar
Stroke is the third biggest killer in the UK and the leading cause of severe disability.
This seminar will assess the impact of the National Stroke Strategy in its first three years, and the effectiveness of the Act F.A.S.T campaign, and look forward to next steps for policy.
Delegates representing clinicians and others in the NHS, private health providers, patients’ groups, academics and commentators will assess with policy makers how effective the strategies have been at improving the delivery of diagnostic services, patient experience, outcomes, rehabilitation and aftercare, as well as implementation issues across the whole range of stroke services.
This seminar will also look at developments in stroke care and treatments, and how those involved with stroke care are dealing with the increasing numbers who are surviving stroke - and their rehabilitation and support needs.
The seminar is organised on the basis of strict impartiality by the Westminster Health Forum.
Speakers and Attendees
We are delighted to be able to include in this seminar keynote presentations from Professor Roger Boyle, National Director for Heart Disease and Stroke at the Department of Health; and Jon Barrick, Chief Executive of The Stroke Association. Further senior participants are being approached.
We expect attendees and speakers to be a senior and informed group numbering around 120, including Members of both Houses of Parliament, senior government officials involved in this area of public policy, healthcare and social care professionals, trade unions, local government, representatives of healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, academia, interested and affected charities and user groups, together with representatives of the trade and national press.
Output and About Us
A key output of the seminar will be a transcript of the proceedings, sent out within a week of the event to Ministers and officials at DH and other departments affected by the issues, Parliamentarians with a special interest in these areas, and other agencies. It will also be made available more widely. It will include transcripts of all speeches and questions and answers sessions from the day, along with access to PowerPoint presentations, speakers’ biographies, an attendee list, an agenda and sponsor information. It is made available subject to strict restrictions on public use, similar to those for Select Committee Uncorrected Evidence, and is intended to provide timely information for interested parties who are unable to attend on the day.
All delegates will receive free PDF copies and are invited to contribute to the content.
The Westminster Health Forum is strictly impartial and cross-party, and draws on the considerable support it receives from within Parliament and government, and amongst the wider stakeholder community. The Forum has no policy agenda of its own. Forum events are frequently the platform for major policy statements from senior Ministers, regulators and other officials, opposition speakers and senior opinion formers in industry and interest groups. Events regularly receive prominent coverage in the national and trade press.
Booking arrangements
To book places please use our online booking form.
Once submitted, this will be taken as a confirmed booking and will be subject to our terms and conditions below.
Please pay in advance by credit card on 01344 864796. If advance credit card payment is not possible, please let me know and we may be able make other arrangements.
Options and charges are as follows:
- Places at Stroke care: the next steps building on from the National Stroke Strategy (including refreshments and PDF copy of the transcripts) are £190 plus VAT (£223.25);
- Concessionary rate places for small charities, unfunded individuals and those in similar circumstances are £80 plus VAT (£94). Please be sure to apply for this at the time of booking.
For those who cannot attend:
- Copies of the briefing document, including full transcripts of all speeches and the questions and comments sessions and further articles from interested parties, will be available approximately 7 days after the event for £95 plus VAT (£111.63); To view a full list of transcripts see here.
- Concessionary rate: £50 plus VAT (£58.75).
If you find the charge for tickets a barrier to attending, please let me know and we will do our best to see you are not excluded. Please note terms and conditions below (including cancellation charges).
If you would prefer not to receive any more occasional communications from us, please contact remove@westminsterforumprojects.co.uk, and we will remove you from our mailing list.
I do hope that you will be able to join us for what promises to be a most useful morning, and look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours sincerely
Michael Ryan
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2010 Newsletter from the BHMA (British Holistic Medical Association)
In this issue
UK Census 2011
BHMA AGM
Exercise improves brainpower!
Regional meeting at Christie’s
Student essay prize
UK Census 2011
A Census is held every 10 years in the UK and in the Census form there is a box that asks everyone to state his or her religion. Many people have adopted a more general approach to spirituality that is not confined to a single faith. You can put ‘holistic’ in the section which asks your religion - it is shorthand for: openhearted, open-minded, supporting the essence of all spiritual traditions; aware of nature and the earth; engaged in personal and collective well being. The information from the Census is crucial in government decision-making in education, healthcare and social services provision.
BHMA AGM
A date for your diary is Saturday 24th April, which is the BHMA AGM. It is an opportunity to have your say about the running of the organisation and election of trustees. Also there will be a crucial discussion on the future of the BHMA. All members will receive a formal notification and agenda.
Exercise improves brainpower!
We know that exercise is good for you. It has been shown to be beneficial for treating obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It is also helpful in depression and taking regular exercise makes people feel better in mind, body and spirit. Researchers in Sweden showed that young men’s cardiovascular fitness is positively associated with intelligence, and predicted educational achievement later in life. So exercise makes you brainier! Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 2009;106:20906-11
Regional meeting at Christie’s
Acupuncture is the topic for the next meeting of the BHMA regional meeting to be held at the rehabilitation Unit, The Christie’s Hospital, Manchester. It is on Wednesday 10th March starting at 6.30pm.
Student essay prize
A reminder for any healthcare student that the closing date for the student essay prize is 1st March 2010. The title is ‘Personal well being, and global well being.’ There is a £250 prize and the winning essay will be published in the next Journal of Holistic Health.
Diana Brown
BHMA Administrator
PO Box 371
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 9BG
Tel 01278 722000
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British Holistic Medical Association (BHMA)
Dear Members,
The British Holistic Medical Association in partnership with Nutri Centre have created the Good Practice Awards 2008. These awards recognise the importance of the built environment in which healthcare happens.
We are seeking examples of surroundings that enable holistic healthcare to support personal or communal healing and wellbeing - whether a meditation space, group-work rooms, a community garden, an art room, exercise areas, a health library, even an entire multidisciplinary health centre.
If you work within an organisation that provides a healing space environment or know someone that does, please circulate details and provide them with an opportunity to submit an entry to the Good Practice Awards 2008 with the potential to win a £2000 prize for large scale projects, such as a new practice centre, and a £500 prize for small scale projects, such as a treatment room.
Entry forms can be downloaded from www.bhma.org Alternatively they can be obtained from Diana at the BHMA office on 01278 722000 or by email admin@bhma.org
All entrants to the Good Practice Awards will receive a free place for up to two delegates to the BHMA's 25th anniversary conference - Medicine as if people matter: Patients, Practitioners and Places.
Thank you for your consideration.
Helen
Helen McCarthy
Marketing Consultant
BHMA
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PO Box 371
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 9BG
BHMA Tel: 01278 722000
Helen Tel: 07979 815 411
Email: marketing@bhma.org
Web: www.bhma.org
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The Alliance of Natural Health is fighting for your freedom of choice in health care!
Today the ANH has released its ground-breaking critique of the European Commission's proposal to impose EU-wide restrictions on maximum dosages of vitamins and minerals in food supplements and fortified foods. These methods are likely to form the basis for internationally agreed maximum levels for food/dietary supplements containing vitamins and minerals through Codex Alimentarius, so they have global relevance.
ANH PRESS RELEASE
EU COMMISSION'S PROPOSALS TO LIMIT VITAMIN AND MINERAL DOSES NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE
A group of scientists and doctors, led by Scientific Director of the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), Dr Robert Verkerk, and ANH's Medical Director, Dr Damien Downing, is calling for the European Commission to review the methods it is contemplating using to set maximum permitted levels for vitamins and minerals in food supplements and fortified foods. The scientists claim that the methods being considered are both "unscientific” and "flawed".
Today the ANH unveils its position paper which explains its reasons for criticising the Commission's proposals, which are planned to become law EU-wide within the next two years. Robert Verkerk says, "The Commission claims that its methods are scientific but we have found that they do not stand up to scientific scrutiny".
Under the Food Supplements Directive and Fortified Foods Regulation, the Commission is required to propose maximum and minimum levels of vitamins and minerals for both food supplements and fortified foods. It is expected that the levels will be finalised in 2009 and early indications are that Member States such as the UK, Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland, that have until now allowed relatively high levels, might have to face big reductions in dosages.
Dr Robert Verkerk added: "You know something is wrong when they are thinking of limiting the dose of beta-carotene to the amount you'd find in just two carrots, and restricting selenium to the amount present in less than two brazil nuts. There seems to have been no attempt to test the models against real data. If the Commission really believed these doses might be the highest safe doses, why aren't they screaming for warning labels to be put on bags of carrots and brazil nuts?"
Dr Damien Downing, also President of the British Society of Ecological Medicine and Editor of the peer reviewed scientific journal, Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, added: "The methods are simply not fit for purpose. It is the multiple use of safety or uncertainty factors that further compounds the reduction of levels from so-called Safe Upper Levels, that are often overly cautious to begin with. The resulting maximum levels, should these be implemented in law, would prevent many consumers from ingesting the levels of vitamins and minerals needed for optimal health and would also greatly interfere with consumer choice."
Jill Bell, President of the Irish Association of Health Stores, stated: "The fact that the setting of maximum dosages for vitamins and minerals is being based on such poor science makes a mockery of the EU's attempts to regulate this area."
The ANH is meeting today in Dublin with Green Party Health Spokesperson Senator Deirdre de Burca, as well as with the heads of other key organizations, Nutritional Therapists of Ireland, the Irish Association of Nutritional Therapy, the Irish Association of Health Stores and the Irish Health Trade Association.
The ANH's position paper includes a consideration of features that would be required for the development of a new, scientifically valid and proportionate risk management model. Verkerk added: "We believe a new model should be developed within an independent, academic setting rather than being subject to the often conflicting pressures of industrial stakeholders and political processes. We are hoping that concerns about the European Commission's proposed approach will help it to drastically alter its proposed approach to the determination of maximum levels, which would otherwise be disproportionate in its effect and may in turn be subject to legal challenge."
CONTACT
Dr Robert Verkerk
Executive & Scientific Director
Alliance for Natural Health
The Atrium, Curtis Road
Dorking, Surrey RH4 1XA
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)1306 646 600
Fax +44 (0)1306 646 552
Email: info@anhcampaign.org
NOTES FOR EDITORS
About the European Commission's proposal
European Commission
Discussion Paper, June 2006: Click Here
Consultation Responses to Discussion Paper: Click Here
Alliance for Natural Health
ANH Position Paper on Maximum Permitted Levels (released 24 October 2007):
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_290.pdf
ANH consultation response (September 2006): http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/labellingnutrition/supplements/documents/anh_en.pdf
About the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH)
The ANH was founded in 2002 and is a UK-based, internationally-active, non-governmental organization, working to help positively shape the regulatory and scientific framework affecting natural health. As an alliance, the ANH brings together, globally, scientists, medical doctors, integrative practitioners, lawyers and consumers, as well as suppliers of food supplements and other health foods, as a means of working towards the development of sustainable approaches to healthcare. The ANH has been involved in extensive consultations with the World Health Organisation, the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority and a range of EU Member State governments. The ANH brought a legal challenge to the Food Supplements Directive in 2003 which was heard in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg in 2004-5 where it received important clarification.
www.anhcampaign.org
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Alliance for Natural Health
The Atrium, Curtis Road
Dorking, Surrey RH4 1XA
United Kingdom
Phone:
+44-1306-646-600
Fax:
+44-1306-646-552
Email:
mel@anhcampaign.org
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