Our Mission “To move UK healthcare beyond an over-reliance on pills by combining social prescribing, lifestyle medicine, psychosocial interventions and safe deprescribing. As well as reducing unnecessary and inappropriate prescribing, this integrated approach will improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities”

Objectives

1. In line with UN and WHO guidance, to campaign for de-medicalised and community centred responses to emotional distress to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities caused by over-medicalisation and unnecessary prescribing
2. To promote the funding and local delivery of integrated services to prevent and reduce dependence on prescribed drugs
3. To communicate to policymakers the latest evidence of the harms associated with an over-reliance on medicines, supported by appropriate research and analysis 
4. To lobby for the funding and delivery of a national, prescribed drug withdrawal helpline and website 
5. To promote relevant changes to undergraduate and postgraduate training, and to CPD for relevant health professionals.

Stop Press: 4th December 2024: There have been recent news reports calling for improved guidance and services for patients wanting to withdraw in the safest way possible from antidepressants. Any media enquiries can be directed to the secretariat co-ordinator dr.anneguy@beyondpillsappg.org

On 14th May 2024 the Beyond Pills All Party Parliamentary Group released a report entitled Shifting the Balance Towards Social Interventions: A Call for an Overhaul of the Mental Health System. Addressing the pressing need to resolve the current crisis in mental health outcomes, the report endorses the proposals put forward by World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) in their calls for fundamental reforms. It includes specific recommendations to bring about a radical overhaul in mental health care.

This is not an official website of the House of Commons or the House of Lords.  It has not been approved by either House or its committees.  All-Party Parliamentary groups are informal groups of Members of both Houses with a common interest in particular issues.  The views expressed in these webpages are those of the group.

GDSR (Gender, Sexuality & Relationship Diversity) This new term replaces LGBTQ+ . For further info read this excellent article by Dr Meg-John Barker.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/media/5877/bacp-gender-sexual-relationship-diversity-gpacp001-april19.pdf

RACE article by Mahmood Ahmad UKCP psychotherapist

https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/news/how-to-stop-being-silent-about-race

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPGAHW) was formed in 2014 and aims to improve awareness of the benefits that the arts can bring to health and wellbeing. During 2015–17, the APPGAHW conducted an Inquiry into practice and research in the arts in health and social care, with a view to making recommendations to improve policy and practice.

Contact: https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk

Creative Health the Arts for Health & Wellbeing. A summary in 16 pages. Short Report illustrated by David Shrigley

Download this PDF.

We advocate for a new attitude to healthcare: one which forges partnerships across society, emphasises prevention and a multi-faceted approach and empowers a healthier, happier population.  

We think everyone should be part of the conversation about health, not just a select professional elite.

Contact: https://collegeofmedicine.org.uk/ima

Integrated Medical Alliance youtube.com

The CHO is the leading charity advancing the practice of Healing: promoting its benefits as a recognised complementary therapy by providing education, research and information to a wider audience of Healing and healthcare practitioners and society as a whole. ATH is a member of the CHO.

Contact: https://the-cho.org.uk

A cross-party organisation working to put compassion, inclusion, and cooperation at the heart of politics.

Compassion has the power to change politics for good. From inequality to homelessness, online abuse to refugees dying at sea - imagine how these issues would be tackled if compassion was the main motivation of decision-makers. 

Contact: https://www.compassioninpolitics.com

www.ncch.org.uk

We believe everyone has creative potential and that creativity can lead to healthier lives and communities. Active engagement with the arts and culture, whether through our own creative practice or through our enjoyment of the creative practice of others, is beneficial for the health and wellbeing of us all. 

We are particularly keen to work in the space between the established worlds of arts, culture, health and social care, exploring how co-production and collaboration can provide new ways of thinking about the intersection between our creativity and our health. 

The Doctor Healer Network (DHN) exists to encourage the acceptance and use of integrated medicine, incorporating energy healing as a major component. The DHN offers information, advice and a forum for discussion for healthcare professionals who wish to become involved in healing. The DHN further aims to promote understanding and awareness of healing as a recognised and viable form of complementary therapy, and to form collaborative links with medical and healthcare professionals and researchers.

Members of the DHN come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Members include doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychotherapists, midwives, medics, hospital and pharmaceutical workers, academics and GPs, plus complementary therapists working alongside health professionals.

The DHN does not directly provide healing services or make recommendations regarding particular healers or techniques. However, our DHN Network offers links to many leading organisations teaching and promoting healing within the UK, and any of these organisations should be able to provide advice and information regarding specific methods and access to individual healers.

The DHN actively promotes research into energy healing and encourages informed discussion, debate and academic study in this field.

https://www.doctorhealer.org