Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)

What We Do

We were set up by the government to protect the public. We do this by providing an independent UK register of complementary healthcare practitioners. Protection of the public is our sole purpose.

We set the standards that practitioners need to meet to get onto and then stay on the register. All CNHC Registrants have agreed to be bound by the highest standards of conduct and have registered voluntarily. All of them are professionally trained and fully insured to practise.

We investigate complaints about alleged breaches of our Code of Conduct, Ethics and Performance. We impose disciplinary sanctions that mirror those of the statutory healthcare regulators.

We make the case to government and a wide range of organisations for the use of complementary healthcare to enhance the UK’s health and wellbeing. We raise awareness of complementary healthcare and seek to influence policy wherever possible to increase access to the disciplines we register.

CNHC is also the holder of an Accredited Register by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, an independent body, accountable to the UK Parliament.

• Click here for a list of the nine statutory health and social care regulatory bodies

We register complementary healthcare practitioners from the following eighteen professions:

• Alexander Technique Teaching
• Aromatherapy
• Bowen Therapy
• Colon Hydrotherapy
• Craniosacral Therapy
• Healing
• Hypnotherapy
• Kinesiology
• Massage Therapy
• Microsystems Acupuncture
• Naturopathy
• Nutritional Therapy
• Reflexology
• Reiki
• Shiatsu
• Sports Massage
• Sports Therapy
• Yoga Therapy