• 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

• 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

• Standard: £48
• Concessionary: £20*
• Student: £10**
• Corporate: £110 (2 copies of the quarterly journal per issue)
• Corporate: £130 (4 copies of the quarterly journal per issue)
• Overseas supplement to cover p&p: £20

Please note that student and concessionary rate members will not receive copies of the quarterly Journal. They will, however, be able to access copies online in the members area of the BHMA website.

* concessionary rate for senior citizens.
** student members will be required to provide documentation.

Refund policy

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.