Though two and a half years old, important because it was published on Hospital Healthcare website.

11th February 2009

After receiving CAM treatments on referral from their GP, 81% of patients reported an improvement in their physical health and 79% in their mental health. The majority of patients, 84%, directly linked improvements in their health and wellbeing to the CAM treatment they had received and 94% said they would recommend it to others with a similar condition.

Melanie Prince, Marketing Manager from the Federation of Holistic Therapists, commented: "We are thrilled but not surprised by the findings which confirm that complementary therapies do have a positive effect upon patient well-being. With around 20,000 members the FHT, through our members, offers many of the complementary therapies that have proven so successful in this report. We hope that this research will be used by GPs and health professionals throughout the UK to offer patients complementary therapy, as part of their NHS treatment."

http://www.hospitalhealthcare.com/default.asp?title=PatientscallforNHScomplementarytherapy&page=article.display&article.id=15637