Consultancy
The Impact team has developed considerable expertise in the design and delivery of integrated and complementary healthcare services. We are frequently asked to work with other organisations, both in Nottingham and around the country, to share our skills and knowledge. Demand for complementary medicine is growing rapidly, particularly within the NHS, and we feel it is essential that services are professionally developed and comprehensively evaluated. We can work with you to design and develop complementary healthcare services that will improve the health and wellbeing of your patients or workforce. We also offer consultancy and support to complementary healthcare practitioners wishing to set up services, as well as information sessions on complementary medicine to GPs and other health professionals.
Impact directors Fiona Robertson and Julie McKay have an excellent reputation within our respective professional organisations, and continue to work with a growing number of national health and social care organisations. Over the past couple of years, we’ve presented Impact’s work at many events and venues – including the House of Commons.
Here are just some of the events we’ve contributed to:
Kings Fund
Assessing Complementary Practice, London, October2007
National Primary Care Development Team
Primary Care Mental Health Collaborative Learning Workshop,
February 2006
Programme Director Lesley Callow commented,
“The workshop has evaluated very well, with 89% of delegates who completed the evaluation forms rating the event good to excellent. I hope you also found the day useful, and would perhaps be willing for us to tap into your expertise again as we seek to progress the programme further.”
Trent Improvement Network
TIN ‘Inspiring Success’ event,
March 2006
TIN Social Enterprise conference, May 2006
Alternative and Complementary Health Research Network
National annual conference, Nottingham University, July 2006
Annual international conference, Nottingham University, June 2007
Postgraduate Centre, City Hospital, Nottingham
GP refresher course, September 2006
One GP commented on the evaluation form,
“An excellent and unusual day – informative and realistic in its application to General Practice. Further similar study days on complementary medicine would be welcome.”
Development Trusts Association
Health and wellbeing workshop, Nottingham, October 2006
“Thank you for a presentation that stimulated a lot of thought.”
Elizabeth Ball, DTA
Parliamentary Group for Integrated and Complementary Healthcare
NHS Modernisation and the Integration of CAM, November 2006
Our Health, Our CAM, Our Say: The Patient Perspective, November 2007
The day after this event, Impact was cited in the House of Commons as an example of what integrated healthcare can achieve.
See Hansard, 16 November 2006, columns 205/206,
www.publications.parliament.uk
The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health
New Horizons for Integrated Health, November 2006
Healthy Backs Workshop, November 2007
Claire Arvidsson, FIH, wrote to us:
“Thank you so much for helping to ensure that the launch of the Integrated Health Associates was a great success. Everyone's feedback has been excellent and we are delighted that you all had such a good day. The enthusiasm, excitement and amusement generated by the speakers demonstrate the strength of feeling practitioners have for integrated health as a model of healthcare for all.”
NHS Live
Networking and Skill Sharing Event, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Warwick University, December 2006
iCAM, University of Westminster
Contracting with the NHS, Kings Fund, January 2007
One student comments,
“Great workshop, invaluable – should be put into the ‘start your own practice’ module as part of the core curriculum.”
Sustainable Development Resource Centre
Contracting Know-How, Leicester, January 2007
NHS Alliance
Providers’ network sessions for GP entrepreneurs
London, January 2007
Social Enterprise East Midlands
BEST Procurement programme, Leicester, July 2007
British Acupuncture Council
Annual conference, September 2007
