Integrating PATIENTS in mind, body and emotions
We devote our skills and time to assessing a person's needs and to helping them towards optimum health. We emphasise education in life-style changes to aid in recovery and to help people assume responsibility for maintaining their own health. If a patient is having more complex difficulties it may be appropriate to involve a multi-disciplinary approach within the clinic.
'The treatment has been effective not just in the symptoms but in my overall well-being.'
A Beacon Clinic patient.
Sometimes a condition has gone beyond the reach of any natural healing recovery and then we give clear expectations of what treatment can and cannot do. In such situations we are still able to provide supportive help.
Integrating PRACTITIONERS
Whilst we work ultimately as independent practitioners we place a strong emphasis on understanding each other's skills and how these can best help patients. We achieve this by:-
- Joint consultations and treatments where necessary
- One-to-one peer group support
- Specialist therapy groups for education and support
- Multidisciplinary case conferences, for a team approach for patient cases with more complex needs
- Multidisciplinary meetings, to share knowledge of the practitioners skills and to learn from guest speakers
- (both the above comply with the professional guidelines for ethics and confidentiality and where necessary the consent of practitioners concerned)
- The provision of post-graduate training courses for practitioners
The realisation of a supportive working environment is both the aim and the outcome of our continuing integration as a team.
Integrating with the HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY
'The Beacon Clinic is an outstanding facility'
A local GP
We are keen to work alongside orthodox medicine so that patients with complex difficulties can benefit from the cumulative effect of our combined treatment. We continually endeavour to make appropriate bridges between complementary/alternative medicine and orthodox practitioners.