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Petition update, 12 June 2009

More details from petition creator

The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) issues approval certificates to Supplementary, Complementary and Alternative Medicine practitioners, but this approval is currently independent of actual evidence of efficacy or safety.

It is likely that practitioners will use CNHC approval to imply efficacy and safety, even though it promises no such thing.

We, the undersigned, therefore petition that the CNHC requirements be tightened to include evidence of efficacy and safety.

Current signatories

Sean Ellis, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Brian Pears
• Alan Henness (Ofquack misleads the public)
• Steve Jewkes
• Gavin Simpson
• Ian Mason
• Matthew Russell
• Alan Crowe
• Trevor Mathers
• Tristan O'Dwyer
• Roy A. Omond
• Robin Bruce
• Maria Wolters
• Michael Simmons
• Rob Ager
• Mark Atkins
• David Bennett
• Phil Charles
• Sushil Nayar
• Ray Holden
• Richard Atkinson
• Dr Jeremy Hodge
• MJ Simpson
• Douglas Gresham
• Michael Williamson
• David Harper
• Lynne McEwan
• Stephen Husbands
• Simon Jewell
• Jonathan Roberts
• Robert Frisbee
• Fern Day
• Dr P Lloyd-Jones,MRCP
• Nathan Gemmell
• Les Rose
• Rose Shapiro
• Robert Morton
• Ben Bawden
• John McLachlan
• Austin Elliott
• Mark Corbett
• Mark Wolstenholme
• Matthew Hardy
• James Aisthorpe
• gary thompson
• Eleanor Jones
• John Lake
• James Gresham
• john webb
• James Cole
• Niall Taylor
• Bruce Taylor
• Andy Lewis
• Jeff Round
• Catherine Collins RD
• Matthew Harper
• Julian Bowes
• Hilary Grieve
• Robert Felstead
• Jarrad Harries
• Shaun Whitfield
• Robert Saunders
• Andrew Wood
• Ian Crorie
• Adam Bernard
• a hale
• Andrew Tierney
• Simon Singh
• Grant MacDonald
• Peter Flegg
• Dean Morrison
• Richard Sutherland
• Simon Hindley
• Lewis Thomson
• Graeme Kirkwood
• bruce mcintosh
• Michael Johnson
• Andrew Merritt
• Barbara Bonnette
• Mandy Payne
• PL Hayes
• Caroline Richmond
• David A Bender
• Jacqueline Birtwisle RD
• edzard ernst
• Dr Robert Willcox
• Hatold Baum
• Vincent Marks
• Christine Monaghan
• Graham Hart
• J. Seymour
• Sally Gordon Boyd
• Christopher Cates
• David Paintin
• John Garrow
• Colin Brewer
• Jane Griffin
• Roger Watson
• Susan Pitt
• Ian Rothwell
• Morag Kerr
• John Guillebaud
• John Hanford
• Mike West
• Alex Tearse
• Mark Young
• DS Mallock
• David Heggie
• Paul Butcher
• Andrew Herxheimer
• Leslie Goulding
• susan bewley
• Natasha Read
• Richard Lockwood
• Prof. Michael Baum
• Keith Geoffrey Isaacson
• Roger A Fisken
• Thomas Hawkins
• George Eagle
• Dounia Turner
• Gaynor Bussell RD
• Andrew Hill
• Robert Sheehan
• Walli Bounds
• Fiona Wilcock
• Juliet Gray
• Elaine Mullarkey
• kate start
• Sue Wood
• Jennette Higgs
• Tim Klein
• Thomas Roberts
• Peter Hamilton
• Sian Shepherd
• Jasmine Challis
• Stephanie Wakefield
• Lindsay Archibald
• Kathryn Sutton
• Jacqui Bartram RD
• Liesl Wandrag
• Helen Gardiner
• Michelle Sutcliffe
• Margaret Geddes RD
• Judy More
• Jane Wighton
• Tara Belluso
• Barbara Arora RD
• Anne Herriot
• Anna Clayton
• Gail Pinnock
• Nicholas Wendon Daniels
• Alastair Macrae
• Martin Robbins
• Brendan Hodson
• Stella Potter
• Martin Locock
• Oliver Ward
• elaine jennings
• Sam Wilson
• John Catt
• john wilkinson
• Lucy Jones
• John Bosley
• Ian McDonald
• Graham Robinson
• Mary Hickson RD
• Rachel Fox
• Matthew Hone
• Ian Nickson
• Anna Parton RD
• Prateek Buch
• Keir Liddle
• C Blackmore
• marion liss
• Alisdair Scott
• TUESDAY SIMMONDS
• Ben Tolson
• Anne Badger
• Adrian Jenkinson
• Diana Herve
• Kelli Edmiston
• Georgia Turzynski
• Gina C Skilton
• bridget simmons
• Iain Freer
• Doreen Sawyer
• Julia Idris
• philip a james
• S. Bell
• Sheila Wheel
• Melanie Telling
• cathy Harland
• Nicola Jones
• Jan Felmingham
• Dr. John Digby
• davina Garrett
• raymond k. major
• Mags Kirk
• Neville Harwood
• Nicola Warran
• Tina Hall
• Gulluan Avart
• Reinu Kalia-Baker
• susan Mousley
• ellen kaldor
• Sarah Claridge
• Anoosh Liddell
• mark beckett
• Deborah Lycett
• Liz Arundel
• Mick Lawrence
• lisa kiazim
• Neil Barnett
• Jeff Lou
• Nicola James-Scott
• Anjula Muttiah
• Beverley Hamilton
• Susan Taylor
• Georgina Fisher
• mandy cix
• Dr Michael Flame
• erinna turner
• Manjit S Bhogal
• Corina Kruse
• Patricia Ratcliffe
• Lyn Owen
• Sophie Esdaile
• M Knowles
• Sandra Norburn
• anita wicks
• linda Rudland (ITEC dip)
• Rhys Gwyb Griffith
• Sarah J Lewin
• Judy Anderson
• Dr Clive Marchant MCMA
• Megan Smith
• Linda Allam
• Diana Eliel
• I McKenzie-Lee
• Caroline Glyn
• Valerie Abbiss
• Juan Carlos Oronoz
• Martin Ryder
• Pamela Barfield
• Chrissie Lord
• Nigel & Geraldine Morris
• Daniel Baptista-Hon
• Richard Smith
• John Hawcock
• Annette Cooke
• Cathy Wattam
• alan cox
• Wendy Milligan
• Pharena Hayden
• Janet Pitcher
• caroline small
• Gail Enever
• Barbara Powell
• Aindrea Withnall
• Alex Melrose
• Ben Finn
• John Fleming
• bob melling
• Patricia Wann
• Margaret Nelson
• david gough
• A Upton
• SANDRA ROSIEUR
• heather foster
• CHRISTINA PAULSEN-RAKIC
• Roger Edwards
• Tamasin Ellis
• Mia Beauclair
• Spencer Holtom
• Jenny Johnston Blake
• Graham Pierce
• Angus Wood
• Andrew Nicholas
• George Jelliss
• robin sheldrake
• Pamela Galloway
• Dr Martyn Inman
• Biruntha Senthinathan
• Julius Apweiler
• Jeremy Bateman
• Ben Gatenby
• caroline ball
• Mark Tregonning
• Sarah Llewellyn
• Chri Phillips
• Dan Leonard
• Valerie Buda
• Stuart Forsyth
• Tamara Agnew
• Tina Bryant
• Katy Kiernan
• Noel A. Greene
• Simon Clennell-jones
• Bryan Channon
• Sandra Wright
• Christopher Pritchard
• Harriet Ball
• Nick Jeffreys
• Robert Meerman
• Pat Crawford
• bob rayner
• Donald Clarkson
• Norman Goalby
• Anne Osborne
• Melinda Downing
• Richard Hendry
• Peter Reep
• James Russell
• F J Johnstone
• Caroline Johnston
• Steve Arnold
• John Edwards
• James Marwood
• Paul Bailey
• Michael Todd BSc
• James Buchanan
• Toby Bryans
• Jonathan Phillips
• Stuart Astbury
• Christopher Jonathan Binny
• Matthew Petty
• Chris Large
• Carol Atherton
• Alex McLean
• Anthony Booth
• Dan Hurlbut
• Neal Ledwith
• Ian Stark
• Mark Antrobus
• Dominic Haigh
• Douglas Young
• Chris Davis
• Alexander Wilmer
• Chris wright
• Paul Nailer
• Brian Kent
• Alison Rachel Ward
• Martin
• Philip Johnson
• Deborah Williams
• Simon Steward
• Karen Wilson
• Thomas Mellon
• Ian Mold
• Wendy Cousins
• christopher head
• Sheri Francis
• William Eaton
• S McCarthy
• Iain Rogerson
• `Jo Hobbs
• Sean Beattie
• John A Rawlinson
• Kevin Jackson
• Simon Morris
• Colin Reid
• Joan McIntosh
• Colin Garvey
• Jemma Richmond
• Adam Marmaras
• Aaron Narayan-Taylor
• Claire Q
• John Karran
• nicky west
• Steve Pringle
• Stephen Ingerson
• Jason booth
• Stephen Higgins
• Jonathan Windeatt
• Tony Brooks
• Alan Graham
• Ben Skinner
• Tanya Hart
• Colin N Hayes