Consultant Profile

Dr Hugh Nielsen

Name:

Dr Hugh Nielsen BA, MA, BM, BCh, MRCP(UK), FFHom

Practising at:

Spire Liverpool Hospital

Specialties:

Allied Health Professionals

Special clinical interests:

Homeopathy has been used in many countries for two hundred years. Homeopathic medicines help us to overcome disease by stimulating the body’s natural healing abilities. Homeopathy uses potentised remedies, individually selected for each patient and following a principle known as 'like cures like'.

The process of potentisation renders the remedies safe such that they can be used by anybody including babies, children and pregnant or breastfeeding women.

Homeopathy does not interfere with conventional medicine, and both can work very well alongside each other. Homœopathy is an option when conventional treatments have not worked or cause unacceptable side effects.

Special interests:
Anxiety, depression insomnia, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, headaches, migraine, sinusitis, asthma, digestive problems, colitis, bowel disturbances, skin problems, arthritis, rheumatism.

Current NHS and /or university posts:

General medical practitioner

Year of first medical qualification:

1979

Contact Details

Telephone number to make a private appointment:

Clinic - TBC

Background Information

Professional profile:

I grew up on the Wirral, qualified in medicine in 1979 from Oxford University and gained experience in the UK, Canada and Australia in a variety of hospital specialities.

I intended specialising as a physician when a growing interest in complementary medicine, particularly homeopathy, led to a career change.

Since 1989 I have combined being a GP with working in the Liverpool Department of Homeopathic Medicine (LDHM) whilst undertaking courses and gaining the Membership of the Faculty of Homeopathy in 1990 and being elected a Fellow in 2000.

I became a consultant in homeopathy in 2004 and the department’s clinical director in 2009. As a result of NHS re-organisation LDHM was closed and a new homeopathy service commissioned.

I established a community interest company, The Liverpool Medical Homeopathy Service in partnership with a former colleague from the LDHM, Dr Sue de Lacy, to continue to provide homeopathy treatments via the NHS and private routes.

My other interest in complementary medicine is in Iscador, a mistletoe based therapy used to treat cancer. Iscador was introduced into clinical practice in the 1920’s by Rudolph Steiner and is in widespread use in Switzerland and Germany. I am concerned to see that complementary treatments are use appropriately in conjunction with conventional treatments, and feel that my continual involvement in General Practice enables integration of homeopathic medicines alongside conventional treatments.

For further information about homeopathy please see the British Homeopathic Association website www.britishhomeopathic.org/ and for Iscador and other mistletoe based cancer treatments see www.misteltherapie.de

Personal profile:

I live and work as a GP in south Liverpool. I am married with 4 children, 3 of whom are doing medicine. In my spare time I enjoy playing squash, tennis, and hill walking, skiing, and playing the piano, bridge and gardening.

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