ABOUT US Background The Council of Organisations Registering Homeopaths (CORH) was established on 9 December 1999 and grew out of a previous grouping of key players known as JMORPH (Joint Meeting of Organisations Registering Professional Homeopaths). JMORPH was established on 16 June 1997 to “work together for a single register”. A considerable amount of work was undertaken by members of what became CORH and members of the Faculty of Homeopathy, in the preparation of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for homeopathy, under the aegis of the Care Sector Consortium and subsequently Healthwork UK. These standards were subsequently accepted by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA). Constitution Whilst having no formal legal status, the Council has a formal constitution agreed by all its supporting organisations and is seen, both within and outside the homeopathic profession, as the organisation which speaks and acts on behalf of homeopaths in relation to regulation. Officers The Council has an independent, appointed, external, non-homeopath Chair, Lindsay Mitchell, and an elected homeopath Vice-Chair, Stephen Gordon. An Administrator, Peter Mitchell, has been appointed and Peter deals with the day to day organisational requirements of CORH. Membership Full membership is open to UK based organisations which only register homeopaths with clearly defined criteria and procedures for registration or from multi-disciplinary registering organisations with clearly defined sections of homeopaths where there are clearly defined criteria and procedures for entry to the homeopath’s section of the register. Associate membership is by invitation of the Council. A directory of the member organisations can be found on this website. From The Constitution CORH…“is established, in the public interest, to represent the interests of those practitioners for whom homeopathy is their primary therapeutic practice and who wish to be identified as homeopaths”. The current terms of reference are: a. To establish a single voluntary, self-regulating register of professional homeopaths. b. To establish a common code of ethics. c. To establish criteria and procedures for the registration of homeopaths to a single UK register. d. To establish an accreditation process to accredit courses of homeopathic education. e. To define, promote and continually evaluate the elements and standards of best homeopathic practice.