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European Herbal Practitioners Association
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The EHPA exists to foster unity within the herbal profession, to promote the availability of professional herbal treatment and to raise standards of training and practice within the profession. It campaigns for the legislation of professional herbal practice throughout the EU as a specialty in its own right. A central aim of the EHPA is to encourage the creation of appropriate European legislation that ensures the continuing right of the professional herbal practitioners to access traditional herbal medicines. The aim is likely to involve statutory self-regulation. The EHPA seeks to establish minimum standards of training and competence for herbal practitioners, so that such practitioners may be recognised as competent and able to practice on an independent basis. To this end, it is currently establishing an Accreditation Board that will determine these minimum standards of training, and competence, attainment of which will be required for full membership of the EHPA by any herbal organisation. The EHPA sees the work of the Accreditation Board as a necessary stepping stone to statutory self-regulation. The EHPA has agreed a Common-Core Curriculum which will act as a framework on which to base herbal training ad which will underpin the work of the Accreditation Board. The EHPA aims to represent the common interests of its member organisations to lobby on behalf of its member organisations in relation to the European Commission and Parliament, Governments of Member States, the European Medicines Evaluation Agency and the various Medicines Control Agencies of Member States, medical and complementary medicine organisations and the media. The EHPA seeks to improve quality controls on native and imported medicinal herbs and products so that the public can be confident in the safety of prescribed herbal medicines. It campaigns for a wide range of herbal medicines to be legally available to qualified herbal practitioners. It seeks to maintain the right of herbal practitioners to prepare, stock and dispense their own medicines. The EHPA seeks to establish ethical and professional standards for all membership organisations including disciplinary and complaints procedures. British Herbal Medicine Association (BHMA) Tel: 01202 433691
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