The History of ICNM
The foundations of the Institute for Complementary and Natural Medicine (ICNM), a registered charity, go back to 1928 making it one of the oldest Complementary and Alternative Medicine CAM organisations. ICNM administers the British Register of Complementary Practitioners (BRCP), one of the longest-running, multi-disciplinary registers of CAM professional Practitioners in the UK. It promotes quality, best practice, raising educational standards and integrated medicine. The ICNM offers a career structure from Therapist, Practitioner, Senior Practitioner to Fellow and has many Divisions in Complementary Medicine (covering over 100 different therapies), plus Beauty Therapy, Nursing and International divisions.
In 1928 Nina Hosali founded The Nature Cure Clinic (NCC). The NCC offered free natural medicine treatments to those who would not otherwise have been able to afford them. This, at the time was a truly innovative and visionary approach to health.
Fast forward to 2007 and the NCC began to work closely with the Institute of Complementary Medicine (ICM) a charity which was founded in 1982 and established the BRCP in 1989. In 2008 these two charities merged to form the Institute for Complementary and Natural Medicine (ICNM)