We will have:

• Agreed ring-fenced NHS funding to allow the Centre for Integrative Care to offer services to all citizens of NHS Scotland.
• A centre that is staffed and funded to a level which allows patients who are referred to be seen in a timely fashion and be offered treatments necessary to improve their health and well being.
• Funding to re-open the in-patient beds at the Centre to allow access for all, irrespective of the area in which they live.

Business objective:

All interested parties and stakeholders will use all their contacts and networks to ensure that the Government and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are aware of the importance of this Centre.

It will be important to ensure they:

• understand the real cost saving that can be achieved by properly funding and supporting the service. 
• appreciate that the centre can support current mainstream services to manage their waiting times and make their current workstreams more efficient by working in partnership and co-production.

The webpage will provide a focus  to allow and support easy access to information that will support us to contact the relevant people whom can influence positive outcomes for the campaign.

We will work with all interested parties and our friends memberhsip to achieve our goals:

• We will ask the membership to contact all MSP in their local areas to ensure they understand the importance of the Centre to them.
• We will ask members in other health boards within Scotland should contact their MSPs and make them aware of their wish to be able to be referred and supported by the Centre.
• We will write to the Health Board and Jeanne Freeman to make them aware of the importance of the centre in managing health care waiting times while offering support to patients with chronic conditions.
• Friends membership will actively find like-minded influential people to support the cause

The centre provides:

•  Cost-effective and efficient mode of care delivery
• Potential to support current NHS structure better – provide support to reduce waiting times
• Capability to outreach and support community services
• Opportunity to offer support to clinician in training around the integrative care and medicine approach, maximising knowledge transfer within the NHS.
• Improved outcomes for patients – Self management support, reduced use of NHS services
• Reduced need for pharmacological prescribing – reduced costs
• Numerous studies carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Centre
• Award winning Service demonstrating the impact on patient care and outcomes
• High Patient satisfaction rate

The Case for Homeopathy

 Homeopathy can be safely used as a complementary treatment which works very well alongside conventional medicine. At the Centre for Integrative Care we have highly trained and experienced doctors and nurses who use their detailed knowledge of homeopathy together with all their other skills as part of their integrative care approach. This dovetail approach also gives patients more treatment choices to support and manage their health and wellbeing and puts them firmly in control of their life.

Homeopathy has been around a long time, over 200 years, and is a tried and tested treatment for over 100 million people across the world who are using it daily. We are fortunate that Scotland indeed has a long and happy association with homeopathy. In 1880 a dispensary was opened which gave free treatment to the poor. The first homeopathic hospital in Glasgow was opened in 1914. After several relocations it is now located on the Gartnavel site and rebranded as The NHS Centre for Integrative Care.

Homeopathic medicines, prescribed by a skilled practitioner, are very safe. Homeopathic remedies are also cheap. In France, where homeopathy is an integral part of the healthcare system, a government report showed that the total cost of care per patient receiving homeopathic treatment was 15% less than the cost of treatment provided by conventional physicians.

To summarise, homeopathy is a safe, cost-effective complementary therapy which should be available to all in the NHS.

For more information about research and homeopathy is available on HRI website  HRI website