Our Values
Below is an outline of some of the key themes and ideas that inform our values
Sustainability
- Promoting and enabling self-reliance and self responsibility, physical, mental and emotional well-being and quality of life
- Maximising ALL resources that are available. By focussing on being and staying healthy we then maximise the resources available for only those conditions beyond self-care.
- Integrated into Public Health systems
- Can be replicated across the country and into the future thereby creating a lasting legacy
- Making a positive contribution to ethical and environmental issues
- Cost effective and economically viable long term by reducing the need for secondary care, medication and drug costs
Prevention
- Taking a holistic view of health and symptoms
- Developing early intervention protocols through body awareness and understanding
- Minimising the impact of aggressive conventional treatments
- Developing integrated community healthcare to increase individual capacity for self-care
- Offering educational programmes of self-care
- Offering interventions that support people through the changes of life stages and transitions
Innovation
- Promoting, seeking, supporting cultural transformation ? to help create a cultural shift within society and the Public Health Authority from an externally referenced model of responding to ill-health to an internally referenced model of well-being and self-reliance
- Enhancing and increasing choice in care pathways for commissioning bodies and GPs
- Developing sustainable personalised treatment plans
- Developing collaborations that stimulate, inform, empower, and inspire
- Moving beyond the bio-psycho-social model
Connection
- Connecting and mobilising our whole body?s wisdom
- Connecting the emerging body of research to our therapeutic experience as practitioners
- Connecting the diverse organisations involved in health provision in the name of integrated healthcare for the benefit of the patient
- Focussing on the person with care and compassion, not just the symptom
- Connecting people who share our vision and mission to develop long term partnerships and networks
Evidence-Based
- Building an evidence base from good practice
- Developing better holistic approaches to evaluating patient outcomes
- Developing methods to measure wider social outcomes
- Researching what treatments have the best long-term outcomes and risk/benefit ratio
- Comparing relative cost effectiveness of differing approaches
- Evaluating what health practices build healthier communities
- Linking to national data gathering projects and trials for holistic therapies