On Wednesday 31st March Dr Alan Tinnion was presented with the Institute of Complementary and Natural Medicine [ICNM] Best Practitioner of the Year (Southwest England) Award. The presentation was made at the Boscombe and Springbourne NHS Health Centre.

Dr Mufeed Ni'man, the centre's managing director (who made the presentation) to right. Other VIP's in the picture included Mr Adnan Chaudry, Head of Dorset Race Equality Council, and Dr Albert Barcellos.

Also in the picture (centre) Mrs Betty Ong-Stevens, head of an important Chinese overseas students specialist services agency (BOSSSUK Ltd), who is a colleague of Dr Tinnion's as director of a new charity -- Qi Educational Culture Society -- recently created to further multicultural learning in the Dorset / South Coast region.

News of the presentation event was covered on BBC Radio Solent, and the Bournemouth Echo newspaper sent a photographer to attend: a copy of the ICNM Press Release can be viewed here.