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The Integrative Health Trust is a charity founded in 2007 to harness and promote the power of the integrative health movement to improve the health, wellbeing and personal potential of the people of the world. It will:
• Open the Faculty of Integrative Medicine in September 2009 to create fully accredited professional qualifications for doctors and nurses in Integrative Medicine
• Build a residential clinic of Integrative Medicine within the Faculty
• Provide effective models of Integrated Medicine to treat and prevent lifestyle related illnesses
• Harness the power of the Integrative Healthcare movement in the UK to act as a catalyst for proactive, preventive healthcare
The Integrative Health Trust aims to develop its work in 2 phases:
Phase 1
• Establish the Faculty of Integrative Medicine offering post-graduate doctors and nurses the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications in Integrative Medicine for the first time in the UK.
• Define the role and training standards of the Integrative Medicine doctor and nurse in order to establish a benchmark for the public, healthcare professionals and employers.
• Establish Integrative Medicine as a recognised medical speciality, with defined career pathways and ultimately posts for Integrative Medicine doctors, nurses and consultants within the NHS and Public Health services.
• Build a large membership to form a powerful lobby to affect debates and legislation regarding our health and the health of future generations.
Phase 2
• Provide a residential facility for the Faculty of Integrative Medicine incorporating an Integrative Medicine clinic to provide training beds for the doctors and nurses enrolled at the college.
• Provide first class in-patient care in Integrative Medicine set in an optimum healing environment for the ill and convalescent.
• Create an exemplar of effective models of Integrative Medicine for lifestyle related illnesses such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes, arthritis, allergies, and mental health which can be disseminated UK wide.