Complementary And Natural Healthcare Council
The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) is a regulatory body which provides a voluntary register of complementary, rather than alternative medicine, therapists in the UK. The key purpose of CNHC is to act in the public interest and enable proper public accountability of the complementary therapists that it registers. The CHNC was founded in 2008 with government funding and support and became fully operational in early 2009.
The CNHC has attracted criticism, mainly for its role in appearing to legitimize what critics regard as quackery and for its efforts to promote alternate therapies which are often of dubious or unproven efficacy. It is satirized by skeptics as "OfQuack", mimicking other bodies such as OfCom.
It has, to date, failed to register more than a tiny proportion of the tens of thousands of CAM practitioners in the UK; it is argued that it is failing in its stated aim to protect the public against incompetence or malpractice in the disciplines it claims to regulate, let alone in those - homeopathy for example - whose practitioners have no interest in the CNHC and claim to regulate themselves.
Read more about Complementary And Natural Healthcare Council: Structure, Criticism, Progress Since Start-up, Funding
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