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Statement from the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health
30 April 2010
The Trustees of The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health have decided to close the charity. Whilst the closure has been planned for many months and is part of an agreed strategy, the Trustees have brought forward the closure timetable as a result of a fraud investigation at the charity.
The Trustees feel that The Foundation has achieved its key objective of promoting the use of integrated health. Since The Foundation was set up in 1993, integrated health has become part of the mainstream healthcare agenda, with over half a million patients using complementary therapies each year, alongside conventional medicine.
From 2000-2007, at the request of the Department of Health, The Foundation ran a regulation programme which resulted in the creation, in 2008, of an independent self-regulatory body for complementary therapy, called the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council.
On 1st April 2010, the Secretary of State for Health announced plans to introduce statutory regulation for herbalists and to consider the equivalent for acupuncture.
The Trustees believe that the best way of promoting integrated healthcare in the future is through the networks of specialist practitioners which the charity has helped to establish.
These networks have brought together specialists and proponents of integrated healthcare, such as doctors, nurses, clinicians, consultants, scientists and students.
ENDS
For more information, contact Pat Goodall, 01246 410707, 07789 871234, pat.goodall@fih.org.uk
Conference Closure
The Joining Forces conference on July 8th 2010 is being cancelled as a
result of the closure.
If you signed up, we are sorry to disappoint you with the news that this
event will not be taking place.
The conference organisers, Health Links Events Limited, will be
refunding your registration fee onto your debit/credit card next week,
or returning your cheque if that was your method of payment. If you have
not received your refund by the end of next week then please contact
Denise Brown on 0121 248 3399.
Other events
FIH networks, Angie Buxton-King's events for complementary therapists,
and the GPs tour to China will all be
continuing under the aegis of other organisations. If you have expressed
an interest in or booked for any of these events or groups, we will be
in touch shortly by email.
Awards
Our awards programme for 2010 will not be going ahead. Apologies to all who were keen to take part.