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DECEMBER 2012 - Alternative & Complementary Medicine Worldwide Conference and Exhibition


2011 Political Party Questionnaire - Party Responses

 
NHC Community News - Newslettters
November 2011
October 2011


Natural Health Council Submissions

 

NHC submission for the Natural Health Products Bill

 

Regulation of Natural Health Professions

 

Statutory or voluntary regulation? Gerald Lopez argues for voluntary regulation

A UK model of self-regulation for complementary healthcare (4.5MB)

 

Natural Health Council in the Media

 

NHC spokesman Gerald Lopez on TVNZ Breakfast comments on alleged "dangers" of CAM

NHC chairman Gerald Lopez comments on MOH "warning" about natural health practitioners on One News

Phillip Cottingham and Dr Paul Butler talk about natural healthcare on TV3

 

Meeting Summaries


Executive meeting 15-11-11 summary
Executive meeting 18-10-11 summary
Executive meeting 20-09-11 summary
Executive meeting 16-08-11 summary

Annual General Meeting 2011 summary

Annual Report 2011

Executive meeting 21-06-11 summary

Executive meeting 19-04-11 summary

Executive meeting 15-02-11 summary

Executive meeting 05-10-10 summary

Executive meeting 31-08-10 summary

Executive meeting 20-07-10 summary

2010 Annual Report

Summary of 2010 AGM

Executive meeting 18-05-10 summary

Executive meeting 16-03-10 summary

Executive meeting 09-02-10 summary

Executive meeting 24-11-09 summary

Executive meeting 20-10-09 summary

Executive meeting 18-08-09 summary

Executive meeting 23-06-09 summary

Executive meeting 28-04-09 summary

Annual General Meeting 2009 summary

Executive meeting 10-2-2009 summary

Research Links

 

These are free-access by registration.

 

New Zealand-based research review website: http://www.researchreview.co.nz

Physician-editors offer clinical perspectives on research: http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/

Medscape's articles - look for the Integrative Medicine section: http://www.medscape.com/familymedicine

Public Library of Science open-access journal: http://www.plosmedicine.org

 

Paper on Research and Traditional Medicine by Phillip Cottingham.

 

Political party statements on health

 

Just before the 2008 national elections, we sent a questionnaire to all the contending parties. The questions were about their positions on natural health modalities and a number of critical issues concerning health. We received no response from the Labour government, and responses from only the following parties.

 

Our questionnaire

The Green Party reply

The New Zealand First Party reply

Progressive Party reply

 

Professional insurance

 

 

Insurance summary of cover April 2011

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