Reiki Peeps Starting To Get Paid By Hospitals?

I know of a couple of hospitals in London that have paid therapists, Reiki practitioners among them. Generally at the moment it is volunteers doing Reiki in hospitals. Not sure if this will change in the future, but with money in the NHS limited, there are many that believe it is being wasted on complementary therapies and would be better spent on drugs. Would that change if they knew enough about drug trials to see how effective/ineffective the drugs often are?

Hi Omega1, hope you and your other half are well.

Could you please provide me the links to those hospitals?

Thanks

Here are the ones I know of:

Therapists work in the hospital in the cancer ward

Therapists work in a clinic for cancer patients

There may be others as well. I think it is becoming common for hospitals to offer complementary therapies to cancer patients, though not necessarily Reiki.

Thank you.

From the uclh website

How we are funded

Although the team is employed by the NHS much of our funding is through charitable donation. We are particularly grateful for the support of the following charities: Cancer Care (part of the UCLH Charity), [DLMURL="http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/aboutus/Campaignsandcharities/LLU"]The Leukaemia and Lymphoma Unit[/DLMURL], and the [url]UCLH Oncology Fund[/url].

If you wish to support this service, direct donations can be made payable to Complementary Therapy Fund 0679 (part of [url]UCLH Charity [/url]- Charity Registration Number 229771) and sent to:

It is possible the therapists are nurses already employed at the hospital. I know of a women's hospital where aromatherapy is used during labour ....because one of the midwives is also an aromatherapist.

As a hospital pharmacist it is my DREAM to give reiki in a hospital and get paid for it. I am not holding my breath tho.....

Hi Tashanie, thank you.

I know of comp therapists working in hospitals, but they are not employees of the NHS, usually charitable trusts supporting activities within hospitals.

Hi Jabba.

Yeah, here too. I know that it's very common for a Reiki Practitioner to serve as a volunteer provider (and/or in other capacities) in hospitals, but it was only recently that I heard hospitals were now beginning to take on Reiki practitioners as full time paid staff (and hired to practice Reiki full time).

I was seeking to add validation to the rumor. The hospitals that omega1 provides are useful references that I will make inquiries to and ask.

If and when I learn more concrete details I will post them here.

Hi everyone.

Are UK hospitals beginning to accept Reiki practitioners as paid staff to practice Reiki?

Hi, notice that you are from NY. If you are in the US the best palce to visit is the International Centre for Reiki training website. THey have a hospitals page which you can join which tells you whcih hospitals are doing healing.

In the Uk the other contributors are correct, I have worked as a paid therapist at UCLH but the move rather than to paid employees is towards volunteers. I worked for 3 years at UCLH in the complementary therapy departmet with cancer patients having had 9 years or so as a volunteer in local hosptals and hospices. Funding is an issue for most hospitals, you also need to have joined CNHC and have professional qualifications in more than Reiki i.e. Aromatherapy Reflexology.

Hope thsi helps,

Healing Blessings, Louise at

P.S I was a paid employee at UCLH but funded by charity until funding ran out and they had to cut the team by half. Lx

I just remembered I saw a vacancy a while ago for a Complementary Therapy Co-ordinator at a NHS hospital in Kent. I can't remember which one, but I think that was NHS funded - unfortunately it was too far for me to commute.

Also my partner was a patient at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine and I believe their healers and complementary therapists are paid by NHS. I seem to recall reading in the paper that someone was complaining about wasting NHS money on complementary therapies at this particular hospital.

My sister was receiving complementary therapies at a clinic for cancer patients run by Chase Farm Hospital and the therapists there were paid, though I don't know if that was by the NHS or not.

Howdy, the website of Angie Buxton-King may be useful for you - she was a pioneer for getting energy healing (reiki and spiritual healing, NFSH style) into NHS hospitals. The website is
Hope that helps!