Training

Patricia Donnachie
The Nursing Dean of the Faculty talks about how she practices homeopathy in different settings
2 minute audio file (2MB)

Catherine Tiphanie
As an osteopath Catherine finds she can integrate homeopathy into her practice to the benefit of her patients
5 minute audio file (5MB)

Practitioner profiles

Healthcare professionals from different professions and settings talk about why they trained in homeopathy and how they use it in their daily practice

Richard Allport
I qualified as a veterinary surgeon from the Royal Veterinary College in London in 1973 and for seven years worked in veterinary practices as an assistant before opening my own practice in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire in 1980. I ran this as a single-handed practice for three years... Read more

Brian Kaplan
Homeopathy has been an important part of my practice since 1983 when I graduated as a member of the Faculty of Homeopathy. I consider homeopathy to be a powerful form of holistic stimulus capable of catalysing the body’s inherent healing ability. Homeopathy was initially appealing to me... Read more

Bob Leckridge
I'm a medical doctor, used to be a GP, but I became gradually disenchanted with prescribing only antis (anti-biotics, anti-depressants, anti-inflammatories, anti-histamines, anti-hypertensives... you get the picture) and only having the time to focus on little bits of people instead of the people themselves... Read more

Holly Mash
In common with most vets I was quite sceptical of homeopathy. It wasn’t until I’d qualified as a vet and had been in practice for a few years that I began to see the limitations of conventional treatments, especially for recurrent or longstanding conditions, and started to look into it... Read more

Jeremy Swayne
As the adventure of being exposed to clinical medicine and the challenges of life as a junior hospital doctor wore on, certain aspects of the ethos of hospital medicine made me uneasy. These could be crudely summarised as the tendency to treat people as cases, and the preoccupation with the achievements of modern medicine, however desirable, over the broader well-being and interests of the individual patient... Read more

Jeni Worden
Homeopathy was a branch of medicine that I knew very little about when I started my medical training in 1980. It was mentioned briefly when I was studying to be a GP but I remained ignorant and sceptical of the whole subject of complementary medicine. I became a partner in a GP practice in Dorset in 1991... Read more

Jane Greenwood
Jane Greenwood talks about how she began integrating homeopathy into her podiatric practice and how it has benefited both her and her patients.
4 minute audio file (4.3MB)