Please find below the speakers slides and recordings for the Whole-Person Health Conference which took place on Thursday 19 June 2025. 

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Panel Discussion: Tackling Overmedicalisation in Primary Care, Focusing on Mental Health

In 2021, the Government's National Overprescribing Review established the healthcare system's over reliance on medication and led to the College of Medicine launching the Beyond Pills Campaign. Three years on, the speakers will look at shifts in primary care, the increase in non-medical interventions such as social prescribing and an integrated approach to deprescribing.


 

How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body

Dr Hamilton will explain the mind-body connection and how it can be utilised to optimise health and wellbeing. Learn how visualisation works, how stroke patients have recovered faster when they combine physical therapy with visualisation, and how people around the world use visualisations strategies to aid in their recoveries from injury and illness.


 

Cardiovascular Health: What Really Contributes to Heart Disease?

Dr Malcolm Kendrick will explain why he thinks the cholesterol hypothesis has had its day and needs to be supplanted by a different hypothesis – one that actually pre-dates the cholesterol hypothesis by several years, having first been proposed by Karl von Rokitansky in 1852. 


 

Putting it into Practice - Healing Power Of The Arts and The Evidence For It

Prof Helen Chatterjee has built an evidence base to support the benefit of culture, nature and community-based approaches to health and wellbeing.  Her presentation will highlight the links between arts and culture organisations and the wellbeing of the communities who visit and use them. 


 

Cardiovascular - Starting a Metabolic Health Clinic for Stroke Patients in the NHS

The aim of the clinic is to cover an integrative approach to metabolic health, which includes addressing stress, nutrition, exercise, sleep and psychological wellbeing. Dr Steve James will describe their journey and cover the challenges and progress made with setting up what they believe to be the first metabolic clinic for stroke patients in the UK.


 

Putting it into Practice - The Power of Health Coaching to Transform 21st Century Healthcare

Dr Rosy Daniel will share her vision for an integrative healthcare scenario of the future, with person-centred holistic health coaching at the heart of the evolution needed to transform human healthcare, reduce healthcare costs and optimise health outcomes.


 

Cardiovascular - Precision Cardiovascular Health: The Good, The Bad and The Misunderstood

Understanding the benefits, the risks and the limitations and unknowns of using a precision cardiology approach is critical to heart and vascular health optimization, longevity and vitality.  In this presentation, using a step-by-step framework validated in over 400 patients, attendees will learn how to use precision cardiology for clinical outcomes optimization, going beyond traditional, siloed approaches.


 

Putting it into Practice - Low Carb Provision for Diabetes Remission: A GP and Nutritionists Experience with Group Work through the NHS

Jane Rose-Land and Dr Pallavi Devulapalli will present the highlights and challenges of a diabetes programme that has been delivered through a 7 surgery PCN group over the past 2 years using a Nutritionist as a Health and Wellbeing Coach, who provides information on why it’s important to follow a ‘real’ food, low carb diet, its practical application, lifestyle factors and with a focus on optimising the health of the whole person.


 

Pain Management - New, Innovative and Effective Methods for Complex Pain Management and Rehabilitation

Chronic pain is usually complicated by other physical and mental long-term conditions as well as personal, social, occupational and financial issues. Polypharmacy frequently adds to the patient’s burden. Kairos Rehabilitation Trust is a small medical charity, working for the NHS in Greenwich it offers one-to-one therapy sessions when other options like physiotherapy, talking therapies have not succeeded and the pharmacological ceiling has been reached. 

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Complementary Therapies - Beyond Boundaries: A Unified Approach to Care

A conversation between disciplines, a focus on the patient.

The Integrated Medicine Alliance (IMA) which is a group conceived by the College of Medicine with the purpose of encouraging and optimising the best use of complementary therapies alongside conventional healthcare.  Dr Naveed Akhtar, together with the leads of the other member complementary organisations, will discuss the challenges and opportunities in integrating complementary therapies into mainstream healthcare. 


 

Pain Management - The Back Pain Epidemic - A Patient Empowering Evidence Based Solution

Estimates show that lower back pain costs the UK economy around £10 billion annually in direct healthcare costs with some interventional treatments actually increasing disability and pain.  Dr Ampat’s presentation will highlight ways to manage back pain more effectively that could lead to considerable savings in both healthcare and economic productivity.


 

Complementary Therapies - Hypnosis Beyond Techniques and Protocols: The Power of Presence, Emotion, and Unshakable Belief

Freddy Jacquin, a well-known hypnotherapist and one of the leading figures in the field of clinical hypnosis, will highlight how hypnosis works synergistically with other conventional and complementary therapies to improve overall health outcomes such as managing pain, reducing stress and anxiety, improving sleep, and addressing a range of chronic conditions.

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Pain Management - Personalising Lifestyle Medicine in Migraine Management: Evidence and Insights from a Neurologist's Clinical Practice

Migraine is a prevalent neurological disorder which significantly impacts individuals' quality of life. Dr Sui Wong will highlight the growing body of research that underscores the influence of lifestyle factors on the frequency and severity of migraines and will provide practical, comprehensive solutions on how to improve migraines.


 

Complementary Therapies - Medically Unexplained Symptoms may be Related to the Individual's Underlying Breathing Efficiency

Medically unexplained symptoms are complex, however an overlooked reason for these symptoms may be related to the individual's underlying breathing efficiency (breathing pattern disorder or sleep disordered breathing).  Dr Louise Oliver will highlight how inefficient breathing is common in medically unexplained symptoms, chronic disease and frequent attenders. How we breathe matters and breath can be changed.


 

Pain Management - Transforming Chronic Pain Management: A Personalised Integrative Approach

In this presentation, Dr Jernej Drobez will examine the importance of adopting an integrative framework in pain management, which merges pharmacological solutions with innovative non-pharmacological interventions. This includes not only conventional physical therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, and lifestyle changes but also non-invasive techniques that tap into neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to adapt and reorganise—to achieve long-term alterations in pain perception.


 

Complementary Therapies - Not "Just Exercise": Opportunities and Challenges of Providing Yoga to NHS Patients and Healthcare Professionals

Dr Rupal Dave, Heather Mason and Paul Fox will discuss the role yoga can play in whole-person health and the evidence to support its use. They will highlight the challenges, risks and limitations and provide advice on adaptations and considerations for neuro-divergent individuals.  The use of yoga for NHS patients and staff will also be presented.

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Reversing Ageing Stereotypes: A Mission for Fitness and Healthy Longevity

Sir Muir Gray, public health authority on healthcare systems who developed the Live Longer Better programme and this year launched the Let's Walk More movement, and Angela Rippon, CBE, broadcaster, journalist and founder of the Let’s Dance national initiative are both on a mission to reverse the negative ageing stereotypes that pervade society, by encouraging the nation to become fitter.


 

How to Live Longer - Helping to Explain Why Some Sixty-year-olds Look and Feel Like Forty-year-olds!

Dr Dean Ornish, a lifestyle medicine pioneer, they will discuss the role of telomerase and telomeres in the ageing process, what happens when they malfunction and highlight the beneficial impact that lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, sleep and meditation have on slowing the ageing process and improving life.