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21.01.2010: BHMA Essay prize

The BHMA is running a student essay prize to continue in the tradition of the David Cobbold essay prize.

The BHMA will award £250 for the best 1,500 word essay from an undergraduate healthcare student on 'Improving global wellbeing - improving personal wellbeing'. The winner and runners up will be announced shortly.

The winning essay will be published in the Journal of Holistic Healthcare and the first 25 entries will receive a year's free membership to the BHMA.

For further details please contact Diana at the BHMA office on 01278 722000 or email admin@bhma.org

Balen's Specialist Insurance Broker

The BHMA has arranged a new malpractice scheme as a membership benefit with the Specialist Insurance Brokers 'Balens'. If you are a Health Professional not giving conventional medical advice and are seeking insurance cover for your practice you can be assured of expert advice from Balens.

PFIM closes on 1st May 2010

Sudden premature closure of the charity the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Medicine as a result of irregularities in their accounts.

NEW from 10/4/2010 - Beating back pain: Information on preventing and tackling back pain

Now in stock - BHMA's Back Pain CD and booklet are designed to help you decide what to do when you or your family are suffering from back pain.

Get a friend to join the BHMA

Our membership is growing, and we would like it to double in the next six months. It can be done, IF every member encouraged one person to join.

Medicine as if people matter

The BHMA launched its campaign to support the provision of medicine as if people matter in the May issue of the Journal of Holistic Healthcare. We are particularly concerned about people with long term conditions who need to rebuild health; frail older people; and people whose health problems are distressing and demanding. Medicine as if People Matter requires a shift away from target driven, tick-box medicine. It requires: compassion and caring; practitioners who feel valued and value themselves.

Thoughts of a trustee - Blog 5

...and so the blame game goes on. The latest is David Nutt over the regulation of addictive drugs. Before that, Robin Alexander and his Cambridge Primary Review over the continuing shortcomings in primary education. Two professors at loggerheads with government ministers. It fills up the pages of newspapers and broadcast air time and gives the people something to talk about over their pint or their coffee and ciggie, but does it move us on?

Thoughts of a trustee - Blog 4

Is it just vanity to write a blog? It might be. The way I think about this is to believe that my decision to act is mostly made at a intuitive level and then rationalized afterwards. I think first as the perceptive and instinctive animal that we all are, then use reason to challenge that instinctive reaction.

Thoughts of a trustee - Blog 3

So am I about to embark on a fool's guide to voting for the oddity who is sane and wise or the oddity who is really mad. Some might say that even if politicians are sane and wise when they are elected, power gets to them in the end.

Thoughts of a trustee - Blog 2

In my last blog I cast myself as mad! An upright citizen, pillar of the community, husband, father, householder, member of a learned profession and yet mad. I might 'benchmark' as sane, where benchmarking is looking at how someone is relative to others - these 'others' being the benchmark.This is what philosophers call relativism.

Thoughts of a trustee

"The political pathology is inscribed in our patients 'bodies and souls'" This rings so true to me. It comes from a Norwegian professor of general practice, Per Fugelli. When I first read it in 2001 it fed my anger at incompetent politicians.