Reiki In The NHS

Several UK National Health Service (NHS) Trusts have used Reiki healing to treat patients (and healthcare professionals), showing that they believe it to be a credible and useful therapy. Here is what the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust say:
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"The therapy can be used to assist in the management of: • Anxiety management • As a pain management strategy • As a supportive measure through unpleasant and/or painful procedures e.g. lumbar puncture, bone marrow aspirate, liver biopsy • To reduce chemotherapy/radiotherapy gut disturbance • To reduce nausea and vomiting • To reduce needle phobia • To reduce pain associated with sore mouth • To engender a sense of control • To enhance compliance with treatment regimens • To enhance coping • To improve quality of life • To increase self-esteem • To increase confidence • To support the patient in the dying process."
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Reiki is also used in:
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Kings Mill Hospital Notthinghamshire 
  •  Reiki to support very sick children and adults, their carers and staff in areas of critical need.
Southampton University Hospitals NHS, Southampton:
  • Reiki treatments offered to palliative care cancer patients
Aintree University Hospitals NHS, Liverpool:
  • Reiki treatments offered by elderly medicine services
Wallace Cancer Care (works with Addenbrooke’s Hospital-Cambridge University Hospitals NHS), Cambridge:
  • Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments
South Tees Hospitals NHS, Middlesbrough:
  • Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments
Newham University Hospital NHS, London:
  • Project to offer complementary therapies including Reiki treatments to the staff and later to the patients.

Other examples are

  • Great Ormond Street Hospital, London 
  • St Teresa’s Hospice, Darlington
  • The Haven Breast Cancer Support Centres in Leeds and London
  • NHS Hospitals including Maternity Units, Cancer Wards/Clinics /Centres and Support Groups
  • Penny Brohn Cancer Care, Bristol
  • Hospices
  • Carers Associations
  • NHS Occupational Health Departments
  • Physiotherapy Units
  • NHS Medical Centres
  • NHS Mental Health Units/Psychotherapy Clinics
  • Special Needs – learning & behavioural difficulties and mental health
  • Medical & Paramedical (many members of the UK Reiki Federation are also practising doctors)
  • Social Services Day Care Centres
  • Drug & Alcohol Abuse/Addiction Programmes + Substance Abusers & Families Support Networks
  • GP & Dental Practices
  • Residential Care and Nursing Homes
  • Local Council Health and Harmony Events treating post natal mothers, Asian Elders, and others
  • Brain Injury rehabilitation centres
  • HIV/AIDS organisations’ holistic health and healing centres
(Source of above information – Doreen Sawyer, UK Reiki Council, 2010.)
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The NHS recently undertook a study of the effectiveness of Distance Reiki on front line nurses that had been affected by the COVID 19 epidemic, both physically and mentally. The trial concluded that "The Reiki program was feasible and was associated with decreased stress, anxiety and pain, and increased wellbeing and sleep quality in frontline healthcare workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic."  You can read the full study here.