Holistic Doctor, Mind-Body Medicine, Hypnotherapy
FRCP (UK) MRCGP DCH DRCOG Dip Psych
After qualifying at Guy's and training in Rheumatology David chose General Practice for the privilege of being close to real lives and continuity of care. Following four years in a busy inner city practice came the move to Cirencester with a young family and the enjoyment of twenty-five years of family medicine. He is pleased to have established a preventative programme for older people, using trained volunteers, called Stay Well 75 plus - now with a Beacon award. He was joint editor and contributor to the book Community Care for Older people. He founded a charitable trust providing services such as educational guidance, parenting courses, meditation and stress management.
He became Chief Medical Officer to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre in 2000 and contributed the chapter on science and the holistic approach to their book Living with Cancer, the Bristol Approach.
He is passionate about mind-body medicine and works with people to restore self-regulation using Capnography and heart rate variability. In 2002 he lectured in the mind-body series at the Tavistock Clinic and the whole person medicine course to medical students at Bristol.
In 2003 he became joint course director for a series of six conferences on working with unexplained symptoms, which is still in progress at the College. He presented at the Spring meeting of the College of General Practitioners on 'Disease or non-disease and who decides?' He facilitates workshops and in 2004 these included a two-day workshop for trainers in the Southwest on this subject, and at the Royal Society of Medicine.