General Hypnotherapy Register
For the maintenance of good practice and the encouragement
of continuing development within the profession of Hypnotherapy
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E-Bulletin: August 2007
Item 1 National Regulatory Register for Hypnotherapy Established
Over 3,800 UK Hypnotherapists registered at start up
Major goal of Voluntary Self-regulation (VSR) now achieved by increasingly unified profession
In early 2007, the Working Group for Hypnotherapy Regulation responded to the need for a truly unitary and national register by creating an interim register of hypnotherapy professionals, consisting of a list of assenting professional bodies.
The Working Group has now moved on to the next phase of this project and for the first time in the UK a single, unitary, national register of professional hypnotherapists has been created and is available to members of the public. This is a significant leap forward and answers the criticisms that hypnotherapy is a divided or immature profession within Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
At launch, the register maintains in excess of 3,800 practising UK hypnotherapists and we expect to go far beyond this in the future.
The existence of the Register is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Voluntary Self-Regulation of the profession. For the first time, members of the public can search a database which crosses the boundaries of professional bodies and individual training backgrounds; for the first time there is a central and national resource for NHS Primary Care Trusts and other interested parties.
Entry to the Register is currently available via membership of those professional bodies which participate in the Working Group and who set appropriate criteria for membership. After an initial grand-parenting phase, the Working Group will, by a process of democratic consensus and open consultation within the profession, establish a set of common entry criteria to the Register. The Register will be updated regularly. Individual hypnotherapists wishing to join the Register will need to join a participating professional body and request entry via that professional body. (N.B. All GHR practitioners are now included within the National Regulatory Register as an automatic benefit of their registration and this is yet another excellent reason for maintaining registration with us.)
Registration is free
All UK hypnotherapists on the register shall be entitled to advertise as "Accredited by the National Regulatory Register for Hypnotherapy". In order to provide further clarity to the public, such therapists are entitled to the designation "NRH" (i.e. Nationally Registered Hypnotherapist.)
To access the Register, visit the Working Group's site at www.hypnotherapyregulation.co.uk and click the appropriate item from the menu.
The Working Group will ensure that NHS Primary Care Trusts and other interested parties and stakeholders are informed of the Register, which we anticipate becoming the national resource for hypnotherapy provision in the UK.
Based upon the numerous responses to the initial draft, work is continuing with the formulation of a second draft of the National Code of Ethics, which is expected to be available for consultation on the Working Group's website shortly.
Item 2 Research Opportunity
We are pleased to advise practitioners that an opportunity has arisen to work with Dr Peter Whorwell, Professor of Gastroenterology at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, who heads up the only unit within the NHS routinely utilising Hypnosis as a treatment modality for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Prof Whorwell's email on the subject follows but we would point out to all interested parties that we understand there has already been a "deluge of responses" following this announcement:
"Dear Mr Broom
We have just been awarded a grant for a three year research project into hypnotherapy and irritable bowel syndrome. Consequently we now need to recruit a full time hypnotherapist to work on this project. I would imagine only people in the North West would really be suitable unless there was somebody who wanted to move to the North West. If you would like to circulate this information to your members please feel free to do so.
Obviously with equal opportunities legislation the post has to be advertised and we usually do this in the Manchester Evening News. Therefore if there was anybody we could send them a copy of the advert so they could make the appropriate application.
Vivien Miller, our Research Hypnotherapist, will be co-ordinating this study and she is always willing to take informal enquiries vivien.miller@...
Best wishes
Peter Whorwell"
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