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The BHMA Nutri Centre Good Practice Awards 2008

Medicine as if People Matter

The BHMA Nutri Centre Good Practice Awards 2008

Healing Spaces in Holistic Healthcare

New approaches to healthcare require different kinds of space. These awards recognise the importance of the built environment in which healthcare happens. We are seeking examples of surroundings that enable holistic healthcare to support personal or communal healing and wellbeing – whether a meditation space, group-work rooms, a community garden, an art room, exercise areas, a health library, even an entire multidisciplinary health centre.

Does your practice environment reflect the part played by the power of architecture, interior design, the use of sound, light, colour, or new ways of using healthcare space creatively? Then the BHMA in partnership with Nutri Centre, the UK’s leading resource for complementary and alternative remedies and nutritional advice, invite you to submit an entry to their Good Practice Awards 2008.

The competition will award a £2000 prize for large scale projects, such as a new practice centre, and a £500 prize for small scale projects, such as a treatment room. Entry forms can be downloaded from www.bhma.org Alternatively they can be obtained from the BHMA office using the contact details below. Entries should include visual material (such as a short video, power point presentation, photographs) and demonstrate a strong user involvement, either in the creation of the space or in its use.

Subject to space availability entrants will be invited to participate in an audio-visual exhibition held on Friday 18 April 2008 at the University of Westminster, London when the winning entries will be selected and the awards made. It is a condition of entry that shortlisted entries must take part in the exhibition; shortlisted entries will be notified by 18 March 2008.

This exhibition forms part of the British Holistic Medical Association's Spring Conference which will be held over two days on the 18th and 19th April 2008. The first day of the conference will focus on the relationship between healing and the built environment. As well as the exhibition, there will be presentations from Dr David Reilly and Dr Sam Everington who will talk about the spaces created at the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital and the Bromley by Bow Health Centre.

All entrants to the Good Practice Awards will receive a free place for up to two delegates for both days of the conference.

For entry forms please write to: BHMA Freepost, RLYZ-AZJT-KBZZ, PO Box 371, Bridgwater, TA6 9BG or telephone: 01278 722000 or email: admin@bhma.org

Alternatively download a form at www.bhma.org

Entries must be submitted by 31st January 2008

Download the The BHMA Nutri Centre Good Practice Awards 2008 leaflet