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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. In September 2009 the charity opened the British College of Integrative Medicine (formerly the Faculty of Integrative Medicine) offering a university accredited Diploma in the Study of Integrative Medicine for doctors and nurses. The next course starting in 2012 is open to doctors, nurses and other graduate healthcare professionals.
The British College of Integrative Medicine is now offering five postgraduate Health Creation Training modules accredited by Bath Spa University within their Professional Masters Programme (Mentoring and Coaching Award). The modules comprise both study and vocational training elements and can be taken at postgraduate, graduate or certificate level.
Further aims of the charity include:
• Build a residential clinic of Integrative Medicine
• Provide effective models of Integrative 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 is developing its work in 2 phases:
Phase 1
• Establish the British College of Integrative Medicine offering healthcare professionals 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 healthcare professioanl in order to establish a benchmark for the public, the profession and employers
• Establish Integrative Medicine as a recognised medical speciality, with defined career pathways and ultimately posts for Integrative Medicine-trained medics and other healthcare professionals 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 British College of Integrative Medicine incorporating an Integrative Medicine clinic to provide training beds for the students 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