Member Benefits

This page sets out the benefits available to RCHM members, covering professional standing, community, continuing professional development, and safety and legal support.

Professional benefits

  • Listing in the RCHM members directory

  • Use of the RCHM and EHTPA Herbmark logos, recognised marks of the highest UK standards of practice

  • Permission to use the letters MRCHM after your name

  • Access to reduced-rate professional insurance through Balens, which can also cover acupuncture

  • Connection to the global network of high-standards herbal medicine bodies and institutions

Community benefits

  • Membership of a supportive and dynamic Chinese herbal medicine community

  • Access to the forum and Facebook Practitioner Share Group, connecting with fellow members and leading figures in Chinese herbal medicine

  • Member-only events at the Bristol Chinese Herb Garden

  • Access to the RCHM's Chinese Herbal Medicine research network, including prominent UK academics, culminating in the annual research conference

Continuing Professional Development

  • Access to the New Practitioners' Scheme, providing a mentor for the first two years of practice

  • A wide range of events throughout the year, online and in person, covering clinical practice, herbal safety, and business support

  • The RCHM Journal, published twice a year

  • Access to the RCHM's active research community, supporting members who wish to pursue an academic career

Safety and legal support

  • Support to remain compliant with UK law and good practice

  • Twice-yearly professionally compiled research summaries on safety issues relevant to Chinese herbal medicine (issued in line with a prior judicial judgement)

  • Regular free member-only CPD sessions on safe practice, and access to the permanent member-only safe practice video archive

  • A member-only document archive covering dispensary best practice, herbal medicines law, and restricted substances

  • Individual support on questions of safe practice, and support in the rare event of legal action

Why membership matters

Membership supports the RCHM's wider work: reassuring the public and government that Chinese herbal medicine is practised to high, voluntarily regulated standards, and helping keep herbal medicine practice both legal and effective for future generations.