London’s Olympia was transformed into a vibrant showcase of the very best in complementary and natural healthcare last weekend, as camexpo celebrated its 13th edition on 26-27 September.

Show highlights included the announcement of the winners of camexpo’s three prestigious annual awards: Best New CAM Product Award; camexpo Clinic of the Year Award; and camexpo Outstanding Achievement Award.

camexpo – the UK’s leading complementary, natural and integrative health show for practitioners, therapists, CAM students, healthcare professionals, pharmacies, and health store retailers – opens at Olympia Central on Saturday 26 September.

The two day show will combine a 200-strong trade exhibition – showcasing everything from VMS and natural beauty to essential business services and supplies, and training schools and colleges, with a packed programme of Keynotes, seminars and workshops.

Zoe Campbell, event director of camexpo, says: “Complementary practitioners and therapists make a profound difference to people’s lives, helping them through stress and worry, alleviating pain and improving their quality of life through a complementary and holistic approach. But they need support too, and camexpo 2015 is their essential event for finding the right new products, services, research and training to not only enhance their practice commercially but also help even more clients. We look forward to welcoming them this weekend.”

Nutrition is taking centre stage at this year’s camexpo, with the introduction of a new dedicated Nutrition Theatre (sponsored by Revive Active).

The new line-up, featuring leading nutritional experts like Dr Marilyn Glenville, Miguel Toribio-Mateas, Dr Alex Richardson and Dr John Ogden, includes 17 CPD-accredited sessions running throughout the weekend of 26-27 September, at London’s Olympia.

According to the World Health Organisation’s website ‘good nutrition…is the cornerstone of good health’. Research linking eating well with good mental and physical health is well documented, and ever expanding. Yet despite much media coverage over the years, there are still concerns over the lack of detailed public knowledge; whilst BAPENS’ Nutrition Screening Week (NSW) Reports last year suggested that nutritional support services in many of the UK’s primary care units also had room for improvement[1].

By comparison, it’s a subject that many complementary and integrated health practitioners are already well-versed, with nearly 40% of camexpo’s 4,000+ attendees citing ‘diet and nutrition’ as their main business sector. And although this is the first year that it gets its own camexpo theatre, nutrition has been the topic of countless Keynotes, demos and workshops since the show launched in 2002.

With visitor registration now open for camexpo 2015, event organiser Diversified Communications UK reveals an exclusive first look at some of the Keynote speakers already confirmed.

Taking place over the weekend of 26-27 September, over 4,500 attendees (ranging from sole practitioners and large CAM clinics to health care professionals, health store retailers and CAM students) are set to converge on Olympia London – making camexpo the UK’s biggest gathering of complementary, natural and integrative health professionals of the year.

The event is renowned for showcasing dynamic free educational content, covering all the latest research and techniques, from some of the biggest and brightest names in the industry. This year’s CPD-accredited programme is certainly no exception. Dementia, Alzheimer’s, cancer, auto-immunity, chronic disease, and obesity – some of the biggest issues facing today’s health care profession – are all coming under spotlight for 2015.