The FHT Blog

Category: International Therapist

  • FHT award winner profile: Alison Brown, FFHT

    FHT Fellow, complementary therapist and business mentor, Alison Brown, has won an award for providing support and advice to other professional therapists in her area (and beyond…) The award was presented to Alison at the 2018 FHT Conference: Supporting the Integrated Healthcare Agenda, held at The King’s Fund, London, on 29 November. Organised by the…

  • FHT award winner profile: Nefeli Tsiouti, MFHT

    Cyprus-based sports massage therapist, choreographer and dancer, Nefeli Tsiouti, won the title of 2018 FHT Sports Therapist of the Year. Nefeli Tsiouti (centre), with award sponsor, Charlie Preston, from Physique Management (left) and FHT Vice President and awards judge, Herman Fenton (right) The award, sponsored by Physique Management, was presented to Nefeli at the 2018…

  • FHT local support group news: Hertfordshire hears about healthy eating

    We always look for ways to bring informative speakers to FHT members in the Hertfordshire area and sometimes we go a little further and work with local businesses and organisations, writes Hertfordshire LSG coordinator Jay Chandarana. Recently, we got in touch with the owners of a new vegan place in town (Letchworth Garden City) and…

  • Winners of new Complementary Therapy Awards announced

    The FHT was proud to be involved in the presentation of the inaugural Complementary Therapy Awards, which took place on 18 October at a special celebratory lunch held in London. Organised by Chamberlain Dunn, these new, independent awards aim to celebrate practitioners, teams and advocates who are enhancing the health and wellbeing of others through…

  • NHS doctor in the house for North Birmingham FHT Local Support Group

    The North Birmingham FHT Local Support Group welcomed Dr Sukhdev Singh at a recent meeting at the Cancer Support Centre in Sutton Coldfield, writes group coordinator Alison Clamp. Dr Singh is an NHS consultant at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, who specialises in gastrointestinal complaints. He has many years’ experience in this field but has…

  • FHT member awarded for contribution to the NHS

    Congratulations to FHT member, Jane Tomlinson-Wightman. Jane has received a Cavell Star Award, recognition for driving complementary therapy services within the NHS. Cavell Star Awards are given to nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants who show exceptional care to their colleagues, patients or patients’ families. A reflexologist and Lead Midwife for Safe Active Birth at University…

  • FHT accredited course provider shares the benefits of complementary therapies with schools in Zambia

    FHT accredited course provider, Functional Reflex Therapy (FRT), recently sent a team to Zambia for its Global Project 2018. FRT’s Lorraine Senior, MFHT, and Janet Hardman shared the benefits of different therapy techniques with children and adults in schools in the towns of Siavonga, Mazabuka and Choma. This follows on from Lorraine and Janet’s 2017…

  • FHT member interviewed for the Dungannon Herald

    FHT member, Jackie Grimley, has recently been featured in the Dungannon Herald as the subject of ‘The Big Interview’. Jackie told journalist Annmay McNally about her career journey, her recent Families First Northern Ireland Healthcare Provider Award win, and how helping other people is central to her role as a complementary therapist. Jackie’s commitment to helping…

  • FHT member wins award for best healthcare provider

    FHT member Jackie Grimley has won the Best Healthcare Provider award at the Families First Awards, held earlier this month in Belfast. Jackie was put forward for the award by clients of her therapy business, Serenity Holistics, where she specialises in reflexology. Delighted with the win, Jackie told the FHT, ‘I am really blown away…

  • The benefits of being an FHT Local Support Group Coordinator

    Hazel Tudor, Liz Cox and Alison Brown talk about why they became FHT Local Support Group Coordinators. Find out more at http://www.fht.org.uk/lsgs