THE UK REIKI FEDERATION BECOMES FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE
The UK Reiki Federation has become one of the founder members of the Integrated Healthcare Collaborative (IHC), which is a collection of leading organisations within complementary, traditional and natural healthcare.
The IHC was formed following a recommendation in a report by the former All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare entitled ‘Integrated Healthcare: putting the pieces together’. It said that “professional associations representing complementary, traditional and natural healthcare should work more closely together on common issues, to share knowledge and experience. A formal collaborative should be established which brings together major associations to take the field forward collectively.” This builds on over 30 years of work and collaboration between the former All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare and organisations in the field.
The aim of the new group is to bring together leading professional associations and stakeholders within complementary, traditional and natural healthcare, and work on common areas of interest. IHC members believe that an integrated healthcare service would improve patient experiences, bring about better patient outcomes, and provide a framework for a more cost-effective delivery of healthcare services
The UK Reiki Federation’s membership of this new group shows our commitment to working collectively with other key organisations to increase access to Reiki and other therapies, promote greater integration with conventional Western medicine, and improve patient outcomes.
Please take a look at the website https://www.theihc.
IHC ASKS HEALTH MINISTERS TO SUPPORT COMPLEMENTARY HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN RETURNING TO WORK QUICKLY AND SAFELY
The Integrated Healthcare Collaborative (IHC) has written to Health Ministers across the UK to ask that complementary, traditional and natural healthcare therapists and practitioners be supported in a quick and safe return to work, highlighting the contribution they can make to health and wellbeing as the country recovers from Covid-19.
The complementary, traditional and natural healthcare industry has been fully supportive of, and compliant with, the Government’s measures to control the spread of Covid-19. As such, the majority of practitioners and therapists have been unable to practice normally during these difficult times, although many have continued to support patients remotely where possible.
These healthcare professionals contribute to the physical and mental health and wellbeing of millions of people across the UK, and want to play their part in helping the country move forward in the aftermath of Covid-19. Thousands of workers in this sector want to return to practice as soon as it is safe to do so, and are waiting for detailed Government guidance on how it intends to begin to ease the lockdown. One of the key issues facing professional associations is how their members, who usually work face to face with their clients, will be able to safely return to practice.
There are concerns that practitioners and therapists will be unable to secure face masks and hand sanitisers when they return to work, if Government advice requires their use as part of ensuring a safe working environment during Covid-19.
The IHC has asked the Government whether, in making preparations for allowing this valuable part of the healthcare workforce to return to work, it will consider how it can assist complementary, traditional and natural healthcare professionals in ensuring Covid-19 safe workplaces, and in securing the necessary supplies to work safely? If practitioners and therapists have to source their own, they risk being exploited financially through elevated prices, or being unable to acquire the necessary equipment in order to protect themselves and their patients.
IHC believes that these healthcare professionals can positively enhance the health and wellbeing of the population as it moves forward from Covid-19, and urges the Government to help them do so quickly and safely.
