Here you will find news relating to homeopathy, and information about forthcoming events.
Upcoming Events
Below are upcoming homeopathy events, click on the event for more detail. You can also use the event calendar to see what events are coming up.
Homeopathy Awareness Week (HAW)
Homeopathy Awareness Week (HAW) runs from 10 – 16 April every year.
This year, Homeopathy UK has very kindly volunteered to take the lead on promoting HAW to the public, and creating some materials for practitioners to share via their own social media networks.
The theme of this year’s campaign is ‘From Patient to Practitioner’.
We know that many people decide to train as a homeopath because they have experienced a positive outcome as a patient. In many cases, these people have had totally different careers before homeopathy. But most of them have found homeopathy to be more satisfying.
The ‘From Patient to Practitioner’ campaign started with a survey of homeopaths from the UK’s three main registering bodies – practitioners were asked a variety of questions – from what made them first decide to study homeopathy, to what their former career had been. We also asked whether they attended any homeopathy courses for the general public, before starting formal training.
The survey provided some fascinating insights and stories from both practising and student homeopaths.
Homeopathy-UK will be sharing this information on social media throughout the week, so please lookout for their posts on Facebook and Instagram, and re-post wherever you can.
We’ve copied the relevant links below, including one to an infographic which summarises the survey results, one to a list of homeopathy courses available to the general public, and one to a list of colleges where you can train as a homeopath.
Link to survey infographic: Click here
Link to list of introductory courses for the public: Click here
Link to list of homeopathy training courses: Click here
Link to Homeopathy-UK HAW page: Click here
Link to H-UK Facebook – to re-post HAW posts: Click here
Link to H-UK Instagram – to re-post HAW posts: Click here
ARH Spring Conference 2024
Great news, and an important date for your diary! The ARH Spring Conference 2024 will be a ‘live’, in-person event!! It will take place on Saturday 20 April at the St Mary Abbots Centre, Kensington, London. The theme is ‘New Insights‘. The Conference provides us with a wonderful opportunity to meet up and network with each other at last, and to be inspired by our amazing speakers.
Click here for a brief overview.
Click here for more information, and to book your place.
ARH Spring Conference 2023 – the recordings
The recordings of this event are available – click here to purchase access to them. Our fantastic line up of speakers included Hilery Dorrian, Mark O’Sullivan, Dr Cathy May Lemmon, Katherine Armitage, David Needleman, Shoshannah Phoenix (formerly known as Rowena Ronson), Thierry Clerc, Dr Shekhar Algundgi, Dr Yubraj Sharma, and the Whole Health Agriculture (WHAg) team.
The subject matter ranges from 5G to the Kingdoms Classification, with a huge amount in-between!
Are you organising an event for homeopaths?
If you are organising a CPD event for homeopaths, you may list your event on this page, free of charge. This service is offered to both ARH members and non-members, in order to share information throughout the homeopathy community. If you would like to apply for a listing, please download and complete this form, and email it back to us at info@a-r-h.org. Please provide one separate form for each event. You may also include a booking form, or other supporting document, as a PDF file, which will be accessed via a link from our website.
News
A radical report provides some sensible solutions to our current crisis in healthcare delivery. 
December 2018 was an important month for natural medicine. Following consultation with 113 different CAM organisations, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Health (PGIH) launched an important report entitled ‘Integrated Healthcare: Putting the Pieces Together’. This report highlights some of the problems facing healthcare delivery today, and urges the NHS to adopt a proper ‘whole person’ approach to health, which focuses on disease prevention and tackling the root cause of illness. It is sobering to note that around 70% of total health expenditure in England is used up by treating the 30% of the population who present with one or more long-term conditions. The number of patients with multi morbidities is predicted to rise to 18 million by 2025, which is just six years away! Clearly this situation is unsustainable.
At the moment, most patients are treated according to their particular condition, so when they present with two or more different diseases, each disease is treated separately. This in turn can lead to polypharmacy, over-medication, adverse drug reactions/interactions, and a further deterioration in the individual’s health. The fact is, we really do not know the long-term consequences of combining various drugs over an extended period of time. If we carry on medicating at our present rate, it is highly likely that we will create a health-crisis of an unprecedented scale.
The PGIH report, which can be read in full by clicking here, identifies the CAM sector as an under-utilised resource, which could work in collaboration with conventional medicine in order to improve patient outcomes and ease the burden on the NHS. In an appeal for the adoption of a new strategy in health delivery, Chair of the PGIH, David Tredinnick stated;
‘Despite positive signs that ministers are proving open to change, words must translate into reality….. Multimorbidity is more apparent now in the UK than at any time in our recent history. …. the good news is that many self-limiting conditions can be treated at home with the most minimal of expert intervention. Other European governments facing similar challenges have considered the benefits of exploring complementary, traditional and natural medicines. If we are to hand on our most invaluable institution to future generations, so should we.’
The whole emphasis of the report is on treating patients holistically, as unique individuals with specific needs, as opposed to a series of diseases which are to be treated separately. The recommendations made in the PGIH report are practical, achievable, and based on sound information. In all probability, nothing will change in the short-term as a result of its publication, but this report provides invaluable material with which to work towards effective and sustainable healthcare for the future.
Information on GDPR
To find out more about changes to GDPR legislation which came into effect in May 2018, click here.
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