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ABOUT THE BRITISH HOLISTIC
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
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BHMA was formed in 1983 by a group of medical doctors and students
as an organisation for professionals and members of the public
who wanted to adopt a more holistic approach in their own life
and work. Twenty years on, the Association is just as determined
to play a major role in ensuring that a whole person approach
is central to the effective practice of healthcare. To achieve
our core purpose, the Association will reach out to decision makers
and those working in healthcare to demonstrate the added value
that holistic practice brings to patients and practitioners alike.
Through a significant nationwide membership of influential and
like-minded individuals there is no doubt that the BHMA can help
to shape the future of healthcare in the UK. We have, therefore,
developed a programme of activity that is designed to enable the
dissemination of information, and to create opportunities for
people with an interest in whole person care to share their experiences
and ideas. Why is the BHMA relevant?
It
is a time of great opportunity for holistic thinking and practice.
Despite the huge increase in the NHS budget and advances in the
medical management of diseases such as cancer and heart failure,
patients and health workers alike are dissatisfied with the quality
of healthcare. There is a widespread search for better integration
of healthcare effort, and holistic understandings of health and
dignity. At the same time, advances in science reveal that the
body-mind behaves more like a self-healing hologram than a stack
of diagnostic categories. Increasingly researchers challenge the
relevance of test tube science when considering the dynamic interplay
of factors required for good health: an aliveness of spirit and
quality therapeutic relationships. Patrons of the BHMA
Sir Kenneth Calman and Susan Hampshire.
Trustees of the BHMA
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Prof. David Peters MBChB, DRCOG,
MRCGP, BHMA Chair |
David Peters is Professor of Integrated
Healthcare and the Clinical Director of the University of
Westminster's School of Integrated Health. He is a GP, an
osteopath and a homeopath. He directs an R&D programme
for complementary therapies at Marylebone Health Centre
(MHC) and chairs the Advisory Group on Service Delivery
for the Prince of Wales' Foundation for Integrated Healthcare.
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Sibani Roy DSc FHCIMA |
Sibani Roy is a complementary therapist
whose fields of expertise include: meditation; elder care;
cancer and palliative care. Other fields of interest include:
ethical living; hindu medicine and community work. She is
a member of the Keele Society Advisory Committee, a trustee
for the North Wales Racial Equality Network and a member
of the European Society for Medical Philosophy and Social
Health Care. She lives in North Wales and has a passion
for Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging. |
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Peter Mackereth PhD MA (Medical Ethics),
RGN Cert Ed RNT Diploma in Nursing |
Peter Mackereth is
University Reader in Integrated Health
at Christie Hospital Manchester
and Salford University. He has practised in a variety of
clinical settings during his nursing career, including intensive
care, neurotrauma, surgery and oncology units. He is an
external examiner for a Complementary Therapy Degree programme
at Greenwich University and also lectures at Salford University
on CAM modules. |
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William House BSc MBBS MRCP DRCOG |
William House is a retired general practitioner
interested in understanding health and illness in non-medical
ways, especially philosophy and the arts. He does research
into holistic care, teaches at the University of Bristol
Medical School and writes absurd plays. |
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Craig Brown, MB ChB. MRCGP |
Craig Brown has been a full time NHS general
practitioner in Rustington, West Sussex for 25 years. He
has a long standing interest in holistic medicine and has
trained as a spiritual healer. He has published a book "Optimum
Healing' which outlines a practical spiritual approach for
people to take towards their illness. Over the last 4 years
he has been part of a core group of the Janki Foundation
designing and piloting a training program for healthcare
professionals called, 'Values in Healthcare, a spiritual
approach' published in September 2004. |
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Peter Donebauer BSc MA (RCA) |
Peter Donebauer has had a life long commitment to holistic life views. He is a full-time moving image artist (again) after 22 years running Diverse Production Ltd, one of the UK’s most respected producers of broadcast factual programmes. He is currently a non-executive for Historyworld Ltd and Zamyn Ltd. |
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David Balen CERT PFS |
David Balen is an adviser to Professional Bodies on Insurance and Practice Management Issues, and lectures and writes articles for journals regularly. He is a third–generation Insurance Broker and Independent Financial Adviser, whose Grandfather ran a successful Brokerage in the West End for many years. Having started life as a musician in the 1960s, he later joined the family business in 1970 after debating for some time whether to become a Health Professional himself. David was a Yoga Teacher for 7 years, and also qualified as a Healer, and has been involved in the Natural Health movement since the early 1970s. |
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