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Press ReviewsA selection of press reviews about Cyberspace Health Clinic. Channel Health.net (July, 2000) "……your guide to the best practitioners in town......If you are looking for a complementary health therapist the Cyberspace Health Clinic should be your first call. The Cyberspace Health Clinic has a unique practitioner register of the best-qualified and most reputable complementary health practitioners in London. And soon the register will extend nation-wide. All the Cyberspace Health Clinic's registered practitioners are thoroughly checked out before they are signed up, taking the worry and the effort of choosing someone for yourself."
"Cyberspace Health Clinic is an excellent complementary therapy resource for Londoners (soon to be nation-wide) offering concise information on a wide range of conditions and, crucially, an easy way to book an appointment with any of over 70 reputable practitioners. Navigation is simple around this calm, attractive site, to which shopping pages will soon be added. Check it out at www.cyberspacehealthclinic.co.uk."
"Must-See Website" of the Month: "Need an alternative health practitioner? Want to find out more about a specific health problem? Well Cyberspace Health Clinic has a complete guide to all things alternative in London - soon to be nation-wide. You can research your health condition or treatment, book an appointment and even e.mail a panel of health experts for a personal response……." General Practitioner "GPs can now book complementary therapy appointments for their patients online, using the UK's first centralised booking service for qualified complementary health practitioners. The internet-based cyberspacehealthclinic.co.uk is aimed at both at patients and GPs. The initiative has been welcomed by Maida Vale GP Dr Rob Hicks, who also practices acupuncture. He told GP "I have a lot of patients who ask for complementary therapies and my primary care group is looking into what money is available to provide more complementary medical services". GP Dr Jeremy Sims, who is involved in the project, said: "This overcomes the problems of finding properly qualified therapists." Founder and Director of cyberspacehealthclinic.co.uk and complementary healthcare specialist Dominique Radclyffe said, "As the site has been founded and directed by health professionals our aim is to give access to the best and most reliable complementary health services available". All the therapists listed by the service are registered members of the relevant professional bodies, have professional indemnity insurance, and have at least two years practice experience, as well as excellence in training and qualifications. They also have a comprehensive health encyclopaedia of health conditions and complementary treatments, a Q&A section, features, health news, and much more including the search facility identifying therapists by location and speciality and the centralised booking service". The Web Review, ITV "If you are interested in alternative medicine but find the different disciplines confusing or maybe you would just like some advice on the options available, then make an appointment at the Cyberspace Health Clinic. The clean, fresh look of this site perfectly matches the fresh and natural approach of complementary medicine to your health. cyberspacehealthclinic.co.uk is a centralised booking service for complementary health practitioners, but has articles and information on the whole alternative health world. The Therapist Directory is a list of screened practitioners who have to fulfil rigorous controls before being allowed entry on the register. As well as the relevant training and qualifications they must have practitioner insurance, been practising for at least two years and show a commitment to holistic health care and fair pricing. There is also lots of useful information to help you find the type of treatment to suit your particular health problem. And there is a guide to the different therapies available and what ailments they are best suited to. There's a Q&A page with top health specialists and articles on diverse medical problems such as 'flu and osteoporosis. If you are dipping your toe into the world of alternative medicine, then cyberspacehealthclinic.co.uk is a fantastic place to start."
If you are chockful of Winter germs but know your doctor will just dole out more aspirin, then this website is well worth a look. Run by a team of health specialists, Cyberspace Health Clinic gives advice on over 90 ailments and enables you to book (carefully vetted) complementary health practitioners and medical doctors in your area. For depression, for example, it suggests not only supplements (like St John's Wort) but also advice on diet and complementary therapies that might help. There is also a weekly news service, links to UK health supports and an online health glossary. You can also call the clinic, who will recommend a qualified complementary health practitioner anywhere in the UK and book you in. Style, The Sunday Times (28th January 2001) A-Z of Health Websites To find out about de-stressing techniques, relaxation exercises and contacts for qualified practitioners, check out www.cyberspacehealthclinic.co.uk.
With so many complementary therapies around, it's hard to know which is the best for what, not to mention where to find an accredited practitioner. But now a new website, cyberspacehealthclinic.co.uk, can tell you all this and more. Cross-referenced by both ailment and therapy, you can click on, say, aromatherapy and discover, it's effective in treating everything from acne and eczema to stress and PMS. Then go to PMS, for instance, and find that herbal medicine, nutritional therapy and shiatsu can also help. To find a practitioner, you just click on the therapy you're interested in, as well as the area you live, and a list of therapists comes up. Other features on the site include in-depth articles (on everything from the six keys of holistic living to the role of nutrition in medical practice), the health Q&A, global health news service, and soon to be launched Health E-Zine, the e.mail newsletter Handy info to help you see through Winter and beyond…..
Now it's easy to make an appointment for that longed-for holistic treatment. Log onto www.cyberspacehealthclinic.co.uk and they will not only find you a reputable, qualified practitioner but book you an appointment too! There's also an A-Z of complementary therapies and, if subscribe to the free Health E-Zine, you will be sent a weekly newsletter full of great tips on health and complementary medicine. Health Online – Time Out (October 2002) Best known for launching the UK’s only vetted complementary health practitioner register and booking service, www.cyberspacehealthclinic.co.uk has launched its online shop and dispensary. Along with hundreds of pages of information and advice plus subscription to a free e-zine, you can now buy a wide range of practitioner and consumer supplements, vitamins, minerals, herbs and homeopathic remedies including products from the Barefoot Doctor, Tisserand, Jason Natural. Solgar, Nature’s Own and Patrick Holford. There is a guaranteed delivery for items in stock within 48 hours Health Online – The Hill (November 2002) With the vast amount of health information in every magazine, all recommending products to cure your aches and pains/heartaches/soul, it can be difficult to track down the particular lotion or potion you are after. This has all changed with the arrival of the Cyberspace Health Clinic.co.uk’s online dispensary. This site already known for finding out about complementary medicine and making appointments with vetted complementary health practitioners, now has the facility to order pretty much any health remedy or supplement, from the Barefoot Doctor range to Bach Flower Remedies, to more obscure but sought-after ranges. Delivery is guaranteed within 48 hours, so check out the mind-boggling array of products at: www.cyberspacehealthclinic.co.uk To subscribe, visit the website or send an e-mail to cyberspacehealthclinic@virgin.net.
Interview with Dominique RadclyffeCyberspace Health Clinic co.uk's founder and director by Elinor Malcolm - logon4london Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey can lay claim to being one of the last century’s groundbreaking films, but in the case of Dominique Radclyffe, it packed a life-changing punch. Taken to see it by her father when she was six, she still recalls it as "a defining moment": the small Dominique discovered an awe and fascination with the way life and the universe work, a curiosity about "making connections" which subsequently coloured her entire career – not least of all her latest, unique venture. Combining the limitless communication potential of the Internet with traditional complementary medicine, the Cyberspace Health Clinic has made an impressive connection between ancient wisdom and modern ways of disseminating information. Her career route has been a suitably colourful one, given Dominique’s – literally – universal range of interests. Yet, like any true achiever, she combines her curiosity and vision with pragmatism and the desire for knowledge based on experience – as she explains: "I’ve always wanted to be proactive. I’ve had an idea; given myself the training in order to facilitate the idea; then gone ahead and done it." The daughter of a doctor, she grew up "always around medicine and very aware of health in general". Her father, evidently a strong influence, used to quote to her: "The job of a doctor is to amuse the patient while nature cures the disease!", inspiring in her a fascination with how people are responsible for their own well being, both mentally and physically. This led to a degree in psychology and work within consumer psychology, but medical matters also beckoned. She began training in complementary fields: yoga and nutritional medicine, including three years’ study of Ayurvedic healthcare. Never one to sit comfortably on the corporate payroll, in the early 1990s she launched her own stress management consultancy. Simultaneously, she was working with the Hale Clinic as part of its core Medical Directors Team and becoming instrumental in its establishment as the first and most prestigious centre of its kind. Her ultimate goal, however, had always been to set up her own clinic – to be "the umbrella person overseeing all the connections". The Internet was the ideal answer. She had the inspired idea for a virtual reality clinic and, two years later, had achieved it. It was two years of astounding creativity and hard, hard graft. Dominique wasn’t making any compromises: this was going to be the definitive on-line guide to complementary health and natural medicine with a rock-solid database including – true to her rigorous standards – only fully screened practitioners and qualified medical advisors: "Before, most people found practitioners by word of mouth. But now, with 75% of the UK population wanting access to this kind of information, not everyone will know someone who can recommend a therapist. We try to apply vetting procedures above and beyond what you’d expect." Amongst the stringent requirements for inclusion are excellence in training and qualifications, full membership of recognised professional organisations, minimum two years’ post-qualification practice and full professional indemnity insurance. And Cyberspace Health Clinic's medical team is equally impressive. Dr David Smallbone and Dr Jeremy Sims bring decades of highly qualified experience to the site; the famous Barefoot Doctor is guest editor; and other advisors include award winning health writer John Cooper, homeopath Dr Rajendra Sharma, nutritionist John Goodge and occupational therapist Anna Radley. Thus anyone seeking advice can be sure they’ll receive honest answers from trustworthy specialists. The question of forging a mutually beneficial, mutually trusting relationship between orthodox and complementary medicine is at the heart of Dominique’s vision. Pragmatically, she accepts that it’s going to take some time. There is still a deep-rooted sense of superiority in Western medicine’s view of complementary treatments, even those such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, which have thousands of years of proven history. The facts are that GPs are faced with increasing numbers of patients seeking reliable information about complementary treatments and currently they’re not equipped to give that advice – no matter how much they might wish to. Dominique hopes that the Cyberspace Health Clinic will facilitate that process, with its rigorously vetted directory helping to overcome "the perceived lack of quality control". We’ve a long way to go before practices which have helped to keep mankind healthy for thousands of years are safely and knowledgeably incorporated into our Western ways of medical thinking. The demand is there; doors are opening and, in the meantime, Dominique Radclyffe’s Cyberspace Health Clinic is making a huge contribution to forging that vital connection. Her father should consider the cost of that cinema ticket long ago money very well spent. This interview can also be located on the London website: www.logon4london.com à Health and Beauty
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