by Lou Cullen | Aug 10, 2026 | Blog Post, General
De-prescribing: Healthcare’s Most Avoided Conversation Starting a medication takes a 2 minute conversation with your doctor. Yet stopping one can take a referral, a care plan and three appointments. At the Integrative and Personalised Medicine...
by NCIM | Aug 10, 2026 | Blog Post, General
Arnica: Ancient Remedy, Modern Evidence In a recent webinar that NCIM hosted, we had two guest speakers joining us to explore one of the most widely recognised plants in natural medicine – Arnica. Dr Vivien Rolfe is a herbal researcher, health coach,...
by Lou Cullen | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog Post, General
Prevention Medicine in the NHS The NHS was built in 1948 to treat illness, not to prevent it. Nearly 80 years on and that logic ultimately still shapes where the money goes. An estimated 90% or more of the NHS budget goes on treating disease after it...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Jul 13, 2026 | Blog Post, General
Same Goal, Different Roads: Making Sense of Integrative, Functional, Lifestyle & Holistic Medicine Coming back from the Integrative and Personalised Medicine Conference in London last month, I reflected on how big and successful the congress has become...
by NCIM | Jun 29, 2026 | Blog Post, General
Breath as Medicine: The Ancient Practice Modern Science Is Finally Catching Up To At a recent NCIM webinar, NHS GP and NCIM Integrative Medicine practitioner Dr Erica McNabb with special interests in mind-body medicine and post-traumatic recovery, shared...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Jun 15, 2026 | Blog Post, General
Balancing Not Boosting Our Immunity After recently listening to a ZOE podcast with Guilia Enders, I was struck by how she described the idea of the body’s orchestrated modes of communication, including the immune systems and how we should listen to...
