My charity The Sam Buxton Sunflower Healing Trust www.cancertherapies.org.uk  was created in 2006 and since then we have been able to place healers into a number of different NHS and Hospice settings within the South East.

There are a number of things that complementary therapists will find useful to consider before attempting to work in an integrated way and what follows are some simple guidelines to consider before applying to an NHS or statutory setting either as a volunteer or as a paid member of staff:

How to prepare approach and present yourself to hospitals successfully; i.e. what experience and qualifications do to you have that will enable you to do this work.

How to describe your therapy to conventional medics and nursing staff. Whatever your therapy is you are going to have to describe it repeatedly to   patient’s medics and nursing teams so practise this now!

What language can we as therapists usefully use? (Bridging language can make or break your career in this setting)

Simple Anatomy (Yes even healers need to know where the vital organs are!)

Infection Control (You are a risk to patients and they to you –do you know how to protect the patient and yourself from infection?).

Measuring your outcomes (You are pioneers so gathering an evidence base is important).

Who will fund me? (The NHS; unlikely so we need to be creative on how to fund ourselves).

It’s a good idea to take the time to consider some of the initial points raised above and identify any gaps in your knowledge that further CPD learning will provide for you.

I’m keenly aware that both Graham and I need to share the information gathered over the past years working in the NHS as healers and managers to provide other therapists the opportunity to develop the skills required to work safely and competently within a statutory setting .To help achieve this we created our unique course for therapists ‘Delivering Complementary Therapy in a Statutory Setting’. Further details are available on request

Good luck with your work and every blessing for the path ahead as it unfolds.

Angie Buxton-King

Please bookmark www.guildofprofessionalhealers.org.uk  for all further training and individual workshops.

To view our Charities DVD please see www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYsoi3PT2U

Graham King and Angie Buxton-King have created The Guild of Professional Healers (GPH) http://www.guildofprofessionalhealers.org.uk  to embrace spiritual, reiki and energy healers.

The Guild is asset linked into our charity http://www.cancertherapies.org.uk

Angie Buxton-King

Angie is a pioneer of healing within the N.H.S. She has worked as a healer for many years and was employed for 12 years  at University College London Hospital (UCLH) working as a healer with cancer patients and managing a team of complementary therapists .

She is a Reiki Master / Teacher and a  Tutor of The Guld of Professional Healers . The Guild of Professional Healers' ( a community Interest Company )  is asset linked into  her charity 'The Sam Buxton Sunflower Healing Trust ' reg charity no 1115614 . The Charity has funded to date ,  20 healers to work alongside conventional medicine at cancer centres in the UK  who offer  support to patients ,carers and staff.

Angie has been an invited speaker at two conferences at the Royal Society of Medicine  London and presented  at the EBMT UK NAP and  The European Bone Marrow Conference . She has spoken at  many other conferences for medics both here in the UK and abroad .

Her work has been featured many times on TV and radio and been the subject of numerous articles in the national press and health magazines. Angie  completed a book of her experiences, which was  published by Virgin Books in July 2004, entitled 'The NHS Healer'

2006 saw the launch of  'The Sam Buxton Sunflower Healing Trust' .Since 2006 the charity has donated funds to UCLH  and other NHS trusts to

Graham King

My interest in healing and a holistic approach to life began some 14 years ago as a result of health problems in my own life. During my search for ways to help my family and myself I became interested in healing and subsequently went onto train as a Reiki Master / Teacher. I have practiced clinically as a Reiki Master for the past eight years, both at home and abroad seeing patients with many different problems both physical and emotional. I have lectured and given many talks on the benefits of Healing and the power of Meditations. I have been employed as a Reiki healer  within a leading hospital in London and privately run classes on  self-help and healing methods for those who have the desire to  help themselves and others.

My newly launched Reiki Courses comply with The NOS and The Core Curriculum  for Reiki . I am also pleased to offer Reiki courses that are tailored for less professional use on families and friends.

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