The Register of the
General Natural Practitioners' Guild provides for uniquely qualified
practitioners of natural medicine with a scientific and quantitative
approach.
The Aims of the GNPG are to provide for
it members;
Representation to the public of a
Register of Natural Practitioners who are highly trained in the
field of Complementary and Alternative Medical and who are 'Safe to
Practice'.
A mark of improved standards of those
practising in the field of complementary medicine achieved by
greater in depth training thus to present to the public a more
competent practitioner who is appropriately trained to the need of
21st Century healthcare.
To delineate its members from those New
Age quasi modalities which rank as fringe therapies but which have
become confused with the natural modality as established by the
competently trained complementary practitioner. Also to reverse the
trend which has crept in over the last fifty years for practitioners
to indulge in therapeutic mitosis without research
substantiation.
The Objects of the GNPGR
are:
The promotion of the arts, science and
practice of the management and development of Natural Health
Practitioners
To provide a Register of General
Natural Practitioners who have achieve a level of training and
competence which will provide for a Natural Practitioner who is safe
to practice The training level required to achieve GNP Registration
is degree level or equivalent on a course or courses of training
approved by, or found acceptable to, the Executive Board of the
GNPGR for registration of the applicant.
To establish programmes of education
and training and continuing professional development with recognised
standards of achievement to support the systematic development and
accreditation of registrants.
To further the objects of the GNPRG it
has the following powers:
To undertake or promote research of
Natural Medicine and other projects and to publish the results of
such research;
To organise conferences, lectures,
seminars, workshops, training programmes and other educational
events;
The Objects of the GNPGR are: To
establish programmes of education and training and continuing
professional development with recognised standards of achievement to
support the systematic development and accreditation of
registrants;
To undertake or promote research of
natural medicine and other projects and to publish the results of
such research; and,
To
organise conferences, lectures, seminars, workshops, training
programmes and other educational
events;
