Tom Connelly

Organising Secretary

British Society of Clinical Hypnosis

http://www.bsch.org.uk

Tel: 01262 403 103

Annual General Meeting

The next A.G.M is planned to take place on Saturday December 4th, starting at 2.00pm. It will be held at the Imperial College in London (same venue as last year).

Registration

The registration year is well under way (it runs from the end of March to the beginning of April each year) and most members in practice have already registered for this year. However, it can be an easy thing to overlook so if you haven’t registered yet but wish to do so please contact the secretary.

Hypnotherapy Awareness Week

The first Hypnotherapy Awareness Week took place this year and those taking an active part in the promotion report good results.

Fiona Campbell made a couple of press releases and presentations and generated an additional 40 enquiries about treatment.

The Hypnotherapy Awareness Week was the brainchild of Amanda Wilson, the PR officer for the LCCH and it’s largely due to her efforts that it was a success. The week will be staged again next year around the same time (mid May) so members have plenty of time to plan ahead!

The Hypnotherapy Awareness web pages are still in place and members can still have their articles / case histories displayed there - thereby promoting their own web pages through html links. www.hypnotherapyawareness.com

New Diplomate Member

Karine Solloway is our newest diplomate member after presenting an extensive paper titled ‘Can Clinical Hypnosis Prevent Stress Related Immune Deficiency?’

Karine recently graduated from the University of Greenwich with a Bsc Honours degree in Complementary Therapies & Stress Management and will no doubt prove herself to be a valuable member of the society.

Home Insurance

Member John Hempstead writes:

Members may not be aware that if they see patients at home their household insurance is likely to be invalidated.

Technically, even if members see only a very few patients at home, they have changed the use of their home from a purely residential setting to a business use.

It is sometimes not until a claim is made that investigations by the insurers will bring the situation to light - when it is too late!

Equipment is also another consideration.

Computers/telephones, if used for ‘business’, may not be covered by the normal household insurance. It is worth thoroughly checking.

Disability Rights Commission

The deadline for the implementation of many assessments of the DRC is October this year. It will affect almost everyone in business to some extent, though hopefully not too seriously. It may just mean providing alternative literature or signs in a form that can be read by the sight impaired, for example, although some premises may require building work to access points etc.

Information can be read from their web site at: http://www.drc.org.uk and booklets can also be ordered from there. There is also a telephone help-line at: 08457 622 633.

Proof Spoof...

I took delivery of 30,000 newly printed leaflets and dutifully began to parcel up and post out the first batch of orders. They looked quite snappy with their crisp folds and good quality gloss paper. It wasn't until I received a telephone call from Marcia Bartlett, a member from Rochdale, that I realised something was amiss. Marcia, an ex-schoolteacher, had called me about the leaflets because she was interested in having some personalised but had spotted one or two mistakes in the text.

As you can imagine I felt pretty dim. How could I possibly have ordered half a ton of leaflets with spelling mistakes in them? The worst was yet to come because an even more thorough examination revealed additional grammatical

slips. The leaflets would be useless and it couldn't possibly be the fault of the printer because I had checked and signed the final proofs as accurate before the document went to press.

Still… there did seem to be quite a few mistakes for such a small amount of text! So I drove to the print shop with a copy of the leaflet and asked to see the final proof. To my astonishment (and relief!), the proofs were as they should be. The printer examined the leaflets with obvious dismay before accepting that somehow, the leaflets had been printed not from the final proof but from an earlier version his assistant had been in the process of typing.

They have naturally agreed to reprint the leaflets and hopefully I should have them by the time you read this. Apologies to those members who had to wait, while they were being replaced.

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