The Whole Person Health Trust is a UK registered limited company (Registration no. 04386014)
and also a Registered UK Charity (No. 1098671)
Registered address: 23 Lancaster Drive, London E14 9PT

The Whole Person Health Trust (WPH Trust) has grown out of the work of the Hanbury Community Project in Spitalfields, East London, and the medical work of Dr Michael Sheldon, a General Practitioner based originally at the Mission Practice in Bethnal Green.  The ideas and concepts behind the Trust were debated for several years under the auspices of the Inner City Renewal Trust (ICRT), the charity that developed the Hanbury Community Project.  Eventually the WPH Trust was launched independently in 2000, becoming a limited company in 2002 and gaining charitable status in July 2003.

The activities of the Trust over recent years are described below under the section headings –

            1          Publications
            2          Training
            3          Research
            4          Whole Person Health Clinic

1       Publications

Over the last two years we have developed a web site and a series of booklets to begin the process of spreading the concept of whole-person health care. The "old" site was at www.wholepersonhealth.co.uk - this has now been replaced by this web site at www.wphtrust.com.

Through this web site we intend making a wide variety of articles and teaching materials avaliable to any healrg care professional interested in the whole person approach to health care.

"Old" web site page

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The site also advertises the Hanbury Booklets published by the Trust and enables people to contact us via e-mail.

Hanbury Booklets
We have been using the Hanbury series of booklets to publish longer articles and essays which build towards an understanding of whole-person health. A list of booklets already published, and in preparation is available from the Trust office.

It is intended that by the end of 2008 there will be several booklets available which will describe the concepts and practice of the whole-person approach to health care.

2      Training

Dr Sheldon has been involved in teaching and training sessions both in the UK and abroad. These have mainly been to medical audiences, informing them of the importance of a whole-person approach, and then discussing possible ways in which medical practice could be altered to provide a more whole-person method of health care delivery. Some formal training programmes have been run with lectures and input by Nick Read and Mervyn Suffield, and any opportunities to speak to medical audiences are taken whenever possible.

There has also been some consultancy work, mainly with GPs, helping them find ways to apply whole-person principles in every-day general practice.

3      Research

Over the past seven years we have been building up a resource of books and articles from medical and theological journals. The library is now housed with the Clinic at the Barkantine Medical Practice, and in the future we plan to use the web site to allow students and researchers to search the index of these resources. This project will depend on suitable fund raising.

4      The Whole Person Health Clinic

The Whole Person Assessment Clinic was an important activity undertaken by the Trust over several years. A description of the theory and practice of the whole-person approach to health care is detailed elsewhere on this web site. NOTE that the clinic is not currently operating.