Subject:		Petitions
Date of Meeting:		8 June 2021
Report of:		Executive Lead Officer for Strategy, Governance & Law
Contact Officer:	Name:	Penny Jennings	Tel:	01273 291065
	E-mail:	penny.jennings@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Wards Affected:	All

FOR GENERAL RELEASE

1. SUMMARY AND POLICY CONTEXT:

1.1             To consider any petitions received.

2.               RECOMMENDATIONS:

2.1             That the Committee responds to the petition either by noting it or writing to the petition organiser setting out the Council’s views, or where it is considered more appropriate, calls for an officer report on the matter.

3. PETITIONS:

CALL FOR GOVERNMENT TO PUBLICY FUND RESEARCH INTO COMPLIMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Lead Petitioner – Mr John Kapp

3.1 receive the following petition placed on the Council website and set to run until 7 June 2021: (2 signatures at the  time of going to print)

“We the undersigned petition Brighton & Hove Council to Send the following petition to the prime minister for the D10 summit in June. We, the undersigned, welcome the governments of the world decision to follow the science, and call on them to reduce health inequalities by publicly funding research into interventions that use psychical effects, (psi) complementary and alternative medicine (cam) indigenous systems of shamanic medicine, Indian Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and other drug free interventions that prevent and alleviate suffering, and call for those treatments that are found to be evidence-based to be integrated into public healthcare systems, and funded so that no patients are excluded by inability to pay.”

This is part of a worldwide movement to shift the materialist paradigm to the holistic one, and the medical model to the bio psych social one, see http://www.aapsglobal.com