BHMA Membership Benefits
Why become a member? BHMA membership is open to everyone who supports a holistic approach to healthcare. Our aim is to promote holistic practice and to revitalise mainstream medicine. As part of an association of like-minded people we believe that members of the BHMA can both support one another and at the same time inform and influence the delivery of healthcare.
To achieve change in the healthcare system we need the support of those who work within it, those who work alongside it, and those who experience it. The BHMA, therefore, seeks to have a wide and inclusive constituency and aims to have relevance for all healthcare professionals, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners and those who are the main beneficiaries of a holistic healthcare system-patients themselves. The BHMA provides a forum for these constituents to share information and discuss issues; it is committed to providing opportunities for people to learn more about holistic practice; and it provides a collective voice for all those seeking to change the way in which healthcare is delivered.
Annual Rates
- Full Members: £48
- E-Member: £25
- Corporate: £110 (2 copies per issue)
- Corporate: £130 (4 copies per issue)
- Overseas supplement to cover p&p: £20
Please note that E-Member rate members will not receive copies of the Journal. They will, however, be able to access copies online in the members area of the BHMA website
Refund policy
What we offer our members:
- The opportunity to be part
of a group of like-minded people supporting holistic practice in medicine.
- A copy of each issue of
the Journal of Holistic Healthcare
- Access to
holistic references and downloads of
all past issues of the Journal of Holistic Healthcare
- The opportunity to participate in local groups and conferences
Make a Contribution
- By informing us of any local events or news items for the website.
- By writing an article for the Journal of holistic health.
- By coming to one of the local BHMA groups, or meet with others in your area.
- If you have a website, be part of 'members holistic connections'
- By encouraging colleagues and friends to join the BHMA
Physician heal thyself: the resilient, energised and positive practitioner is more likely to provide a firm foundation for a vibrant and effective healthcare system
than is the practitioner who has neglected their own wellbeing.
For people with unexplained or complex or long-term conditions or with life-limiting illness, taking time to see beyond the symptoms or the disease to the whole person, and being
better informed about potentially helpful complementary strategies, may result in patients who cope better, are less dependent o-n doctors, and who begin to take o-n more responsibility for their own condition. For healthcare professionals, the BHMA provides a practitioner perspective on whole person care through member networks, its quarterly journal and regular education workshops. It provides a voice for the doctors and nurses practising in the mainstream who have first hand experience of the benefits of a holistic approach, both in respect of themselves and their patients. The BHMA encourages and supports healthcare students to become members and to get involved early in their careers. CAM practitioners can establish effective links with healthcare professionals, creating mutual respect and understanding. They can grow the evidence base for the effectiveness of CAM therapies and share information about good practice. For CAM practitioners, belonging to the BHMA is an opportunity to share ideas and information about their practice and to engage with healthcare professionals in order to create a voice for a more holistic healthcare system in which complementary strategies are better understood and available to all. We can all take individual responsibility for health and wellbeing, by being well informed and seeking to be an active partner in our own healthcare.
For patients or lay people, being part of the BHMA is an opportunity to add their voice, through their knowledge and experience, to the call for a more holistic healthcare system.
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