EUROCAM
The “European CAM Stakeholder Group - EUROCAM” is a network of CAM Stakeholder groups organised at the European level comprising national associations of:
- Patients with an interest in CAM
- Medical doctors with an additional qualification in a CAM modality, including CAMDOC Alliance
- Officially registered healthcare professionals with an additional qualification in a CAM modality
- Practitioners with specific CAM modality professional accreditation.
EUROCAM seeks to unite all European umbrella organisations of patients, doctors and practitioners with different backgrounds in the field of CAM, who subscribe to the objectives of the network and have democratic membership and decision-making structures. The main reasons are (1) the political clout carried by the collaboration and combined human and financial resources of these umbrella organisations and (2) the wish of the EU institutions to deal with the CAM field as a whole.
The organisations participating in EUROCAM seek to work
collaboratively in order to better fulfil their purposes, while
remaining as separate organisations.
The organisations participating in EUROCAM take the position that all
healthcare professionals have the right to practise according to the
philosophy, principles and method of each CAM modality based on the
appropriate training, and ethical and professional standards for each
modality. On that basis the organisations participating in EUROCAM do
so on the basis of mutual respect and status.
At the moment the growing coherence of the CAM sector contributes strongly to three major CAM activities at the EU level:
- permanent dialog of the CAM organizations with the DG SANCO.
- establishment of a “CAM Interest Group” in the European Parliament in this legislative period
- preparation of a political CAM Conference in the EU 2012 together with DG SANCO under the heading “CAM – adding value to a healthy Europe”.