Live Life Team
Maggie Dunn said that she will not cry to those people driven out of business who are not up to scratch. She is the head of the Complementary and Healthcare Council.
Dunn has promised that her organisation would be tough on cowboy therapists or unreliable healers and that rules and regulations would be launched to “clean up the industry used by one in five people”.
The main objective of the regulation is to manage a register of practitioners and not to judge whether clinics’ therapies are effective or not. The council’s goal is to check if therapists are conducting safe and professional businesses.
Alternative medicine refers to health care and treatment practises that minimise the application of drugs and surgery. It involves the use of folk medicine, Chinese medicine and naturopathy rather than curing an illness through doctors’ prescribed drugs or by undergoing surgery.
There are more than 150,000 alternative medicine therapists in the UK. Although Dunn thinks that most of these clinics operate using good standards, she is not sure that all of them would be able to register. She further believes that among them, between half and ⅔ would be able to register, which would permit them to use the usual logo and post it in their clinics. However, some of the non-qualifiers just need some extra effort to pass; yet, there are thousands of them that are not good enough.
