Help Save Herbal Medicine

If we want to preserve access to medicines which have an unbroken history going back thousands of years we need to ACT NOW. In spite of 10 years of negotiation and a 2008 Steering Group report which recommended that Statutory Regulation should go ahead, the Government has issued yet another unnecessary consultation document which can be found at www.dh.gov.uk.

I am asking visitors to my site to write to the Department of Health immediately with a response to this Consultation Document. Replies must be received by the 16 November 2009 in order to be valid. They should be completed online or if you find this too complicated send your opinion in writing to:

Consultation Team
Department of Health
Room 2N09
Quarry House
Quarry Hill
Leeds LS2 7UE
 
Please respond to the document directly online via the automated response system. When you click on the link above, you will see a link to this system at the very bottom of the page.

Many of the questions you may find difficult or impossible to answer. That's fine - just say so. However, if you would prefer some guidance on how to complete the Consultation or on what to say to your MP, go to www.nimh.org and click on the green square on the home page. You will be able to download suggested answers to the Consultation questions as well as specimen MP letters.

If you do not know who your MP is, you can find this by entering your postcode at http://findyourmp.parliament.uk. This site also gives you an opportunity to email your MP - which may be a safer method with postal strikes.

Thank you for your help and please do spread the word and help to save herbal medicine!