All Entries Tagged With: "CAM"
Models of provision of acupuncture in primary care
In order to facilitate the potential integration of acupuncture, and other CAM services, into the NHS, a greater understanding is required of possible models of provision. The Foundation for Integrated Medicine (1997),
Integration into the NHS
Over the last decade or so there have been major organisational and structural changes within primary care in the NHS. The late 1980s brought the introduction of fundholding (1989),
Cost-effectiveness Of acupuncture
Cost-effectiveness will be an important issue for the potential future integration of acupuncture into the NHS. Very little is known about this issue (van Haselen, 1999), and there are few robust studies which have tackled it.
Funding of the acupuncture
The provision of acupuncture treatment has flourished despite lack of widespread knowledge of its efficacy, lack of comprehensive guidelines for either GPs or patients, and without national regulatory
National occupational standards in CAM
In the UK, an independent national training organisation, Healthwork UK, is assessing training needs for some professions within the health care sector.
BMA and CAM acupuncture courses
A BMA survey of CAM bodies (1993) reflected that there was a considerable range of standards, aspirations, and levels of training for practitioners of CAM therapies. At one end of the spectrum,
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