The Bagnall Centre for Integrated Healthcare

About

An Integrated Healthcare Centre based in Chesham

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The vision

We at the Bagnall Centre believe that people will be healthier if they understand the principles of good personal healthcare, are taught why and how to live by these principles, and are supported during the process of change from old lifestyle to new. We also believe that the health of a family is best managed by the whole family working together, and not by each family member working in isolation.

The Bagnall Centre offers the very best healthcare services, education and motivation across fitness and exercise, therapies and wellbeing, nutrition and lifestyle, in an inspiring building with an atmosphere that is calm, peaceful and restorative. Assessments and treatments combine the best of natural, complementary and biochemical medicine backed up by orthodox medical expertise. Facilities in the complementary building include a gymnasium, an exercise studio, eight therapy rooms, a large classroom, and a teaching kitchen.

There is a focus on helping people to improve their lifestyle, eating habits and stress management with expert professional help and experienced teachers. We focus on disease prevention as well as disease reversal, on peer group as well as individual counselling and teaching, on self-help as well as external intervention. We encourage engagement with the local community to establish a nurturing mutual support network.

The Bagnall Centre was launched as a private healthcare facility, and we anticipate that it will become a mixed private/public facility over the next ten years as the efficacy of the integrated healthcare concept is proven and adopted by the NHS. We are already engaging with local NHS general practitioners with a view to their prescribing our lifestyle change programme for some of their patients in the place of surgery or drugs – for example for depression, obesity or type 2 diabetes.