Hypnotherapy and Recognition in Scottish Health

Exciting news hit my email box today, so wanted to share it.  Here is the news for anyone who wants to use Hypnotherapy but through their NHS Board. 
 
Scottish Government updates guidance on complementary and alternative medicine
 
The Scottish Government has updated its guidance about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The revised guidance provides information to all NHS Boards, Special Boards and Health and Social Care Partnerships in Scotland about the Professional Standards Authority’s accredited registers programme.
 
The new guidance (DL (2016) 06) was issued to update the earlier Health Department Letter (HDL) (2005) 37 and states: “the Scottish Government recognises that complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) may offer some relief to some people living with a wide variety of long term health conditions.”
 
It also makes clear that use of accredited registers such as CNHC’s: “can have a number of benefits for practitioners, patients, contracting organisations and employers; providing reassurance that professionals are subject to a level of appropriate scrutiny.”  More information about accredited registers is available on the Professional Standards Authority web site at
 
http://www.professionalstandards.org.uk/accredited-registers/about-accredited-registers/faqs
 
The update follows a meeting held in December 2014 between representatives of CNHC and the Scottish Government where the update of the HDL was discussed.