by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Apr 7, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Raising Awareness of Stress and Trauma April is stress awareness month and with the next NCIM conference coming up in May about trauma I wanted to talk about stress, trauma and some practical ways we can manage these events in our lives. Whilst trauma or a...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Apr 4, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Why Homeopathy is Still Relevant in Today’s Medicine We’re celebrating World Homeopathy Awareness week and I wanted to speak about why homeopathy is still very much relevant in today’s medicine. Many of you may know that along with a range of...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Thrive 55: Building age-friendly workplaces As some of you may know when I started the National Centre for Integrative Medicine as a not for profit community interest company, I was committed to the idea of four pillars – within the Education pillar we...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Mar 26, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Let’s Dig Deeper! Functional Medicine and why it’s so important for personalised care Last night we had our free monthly webinar with Dr Hazel Walkin, a GP in Somerset and new functional medicine doctor for NCIM. She talked us through what functional medicine is,...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Mar 19, 2025 | Blog Post, General
Changing the Prejudice Around Lifestyle Medicine I was fascinated to read about new research which came out last month, suggesting that the environment an individual lives in, is about 10 times more influential than genetics in determining why some people face a...
by Dr Elizabeth Thompson | Mar 12, 2025 | Blog Post, General
What is Integrative Medicine? It has to be one of the questions I am asked the most from those outside our field of work…. What does integrative medicine mean? Sometimes I think the biggest barrier to making integrative medicine more accessible is a lack of...
