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10th October 2009

Herbal Medicine under threat


If we want to preserve access to medicines which have an unbroken history going back thousands of years we need to ACT NOW. In spite of 10 years of negotiation and a 2008 Steering Group report which recommended that Statutory Regulation should go ahead, the Government has issued yet another unnecessary consultation document:

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_103567

I am asking visitors to my site to write to the Department of Health
immediately with a response to this Consultation Document. Replies must be received by the end of October to be valid. They should be sent to:-


AHMTCM Consultation Team
Department of Health
Room 2N09
Quarry House
Quarry Hill
Leeds LS2 7UE

Alternatively you may wish to respond to the document directly online via the automated response system. When you click on the link above, you will see a link to this system at the very bottom of the page.

Many of the questions you may find difficult or impossible to answer. That's fine - just say so. However, if you would prefer some guidance on how to complete the Consultation or on what to say to your MP, go to http://www.nimh.org.uk and click on the green square on the home page. You will be able to download suggested answers to the Consultation questions as well as specimen MP letters.

If you do not know who your MP is, you can find this by entering your postcode at http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/ This site also gives you an opportunity to email your MP - which may be a safer method with postal strikes.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!