PE1873: Provide hypnotherapy for the treatment of mental health, psychosomatic disorders and chronic pain
Petition summary
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to instruct the NHS to provide hypnotherapy for the treatment of mental health, psychosomatic disorders and chronic pain.
Petitioner: Graeme Harvey on behalf of the Scottish Hypnotherapy Foundation
Status: Closed
Date published: 25 May 2021
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Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee Consideration
SPICe briefing (138KB, pdf) posted 31 August 2021
SPICe Literature Review (243KB, pdf) posted 06 December 2021
Committee Meeting
22 September 2021: The Committee agreed to write to NHS Scotland Boards.
Official report of Meeting 22 September
19 January 2022: The Committee agreed to close the petition under Rule 15.7 of Standing Orders on the basis that stakeholders have indicated that due to the lack of quality evidence, they would not recommend hypnotherapy as a treatment on the NHS, and that the Scottish Government stated that it is up to individual NHS Boards to decide which Complementary and Alternative Medicine Services (CAMS) are made available. In closing the petition, the Committee also agreed to write to SIGN and NICE.
Official Report of Meeting 19 January 2022
Written submissions
PE1873/A: Petitioner submission of 10 June 2021
PE1873/B: Scottish Government submission of 24 June 2021
PE1873/C - Petitioner submission of 2 September 2021
PE1873/D: Leads of Clinical Health Psychology submission of 14 October 2021
PE1873/E: NHS Orkney submission of 22 October 2021
PE1873/F: North Ayrshire Health & Social Care Partnership submission of 25 October 2021