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The British College of Integrated Medicine

At the launch at the Royal College of Physicians in Regents Park, the Integrated Health Trust, formed in November 2007, will announce its first achievement - the formation of the British College of Integrated Medicine which will start its first courses to educate doctors and nurses in all aspects of the IM model in January 2009. This course will be run by IM pioneers Dr Rosy Daniel and Dr Mark Atkinson and other leaders in the IM field. It will be professionally validated by the team of Professor Karol Sikora at his innovative Medical School at the University of Buckingham.

Integrated healthcare combines the very best of all medicines - orthodox, complementary, psychological, nutritional, spiritual and self-help - for the care of the sick and the prevention of illness. IM practitioners treat the cause and not just the symptoms of illness and enhance the self-healing potential of the body, mind and spirit.

Professor Karol Sikora, Clinical Dean at Buckingham University and Medical Director of Cancer Partners UK* is one of the Trust’s advisors, and will be speaking at the launch about the importance of Integrated Medicine in the UK. He said: “This is a remarkable and ambitious initiative aiming to bring IM into routine use throughout healthcare in Britain. It urgently requires a focus for training, teaching and research that this project envisages. The combination of aging populations, technological progress and an informed, demanding clientele will result in increasing financial strain in all healthcare environments. Predominantly tax based systems, such as Britain’s NHS, are particularly vulnerable to meltdown unless new approaches can be found to return people to health with simpler and cheaper holistic strategies.”

Mac Jeffery, a beneficiary of integrated medicine who will be speaking at the launch, said:

“Integrated Medicine has played such an important part in my survival from cancer.

I have received excellent orthodox treatment, accessed the best in complementary therapy and on the way met some amazing practitioners.

Integrated Medicine has focused on 'all of me' not just my illness and given me strategies to take control of my life and health.”