About Source Point Community Health CIC

About Source Point Community Health CIC

Source Point Community Health CIC grew out of a set of needs:

  • A national need for new forms of treatment (or very old forms, depending on how you look at them) to address the health crises that our country, like most industrialised countries, finds itself in
  • Our need to offer treatment to those in society who could benefit from Chinese medicine the most, but struggle to afford it
  • And finally, your need to receive high-quality Chinese medicine in a professional environment at affordable prices – meaning you can receive the treatment you need and want


We offer effective, affordable healthcare for all, in the heart of Devon

Source Point (SP) is a practitioner-led co-op offering treatment by experienced and highly skilled acupuncturists, herbalists, massage therapists, dieticians and Qi Gong and meditation teachers.

We work as a team, meaning that your case will be diagnosed and your treatment plan created by all of the SP clinicians. You receive a second opinion, which is ongoing via our review process, throughout your treatment. After all, 4 heads are better than 1 and we pull our experience and expertise to make sure you get the best treatment available.

We offer the whole of Chinese medicine so that the Treatment Plan and intervention can be tailored to you and your needs as well as offering health education to support change in your life.

Source Point is here for our community.  Come along and see what we’re up to, whether you’d like a free ear acupuncture treatment, a full treatment appointment, or just to have a cup of tea and to find out more about how Chinese medicine can help you and your family thrive…

 

The Source Point Story

Source Point Community Health CIC started out life in 2013 as a multi-bed acupuncture clinic (Source Point Community Acupuncture) offering 6 treatments per hour with 2 clinicians working side by side in one big room. We still offer this treatment and it is in many ways our flagship service.

In 2016 we received an award for a Big Lottery Grant to offer free acupuncture for patients in chronic pain and on a low income, to run alongside our existing free ear/auricular acupuncture service and the main ‘pay what you can afford’ clinic. We have successfully received follow-up grants to maintain the free service (now for chronic illness/low income) and hope this will continue and expand to include all of the treatment modalities which Source Point offers.

In 2017 we began to realise the need to incorporate the other Chinese medicine modalities of Herbs, Tui Na Medical Massage, Qi Gong Exercise and Dietary therapy to better treat the complex health conditions we were seeing. Following public consultation, we launched the full range of Chinese medicine modalities in 2018. As we were no longer just an acupuncture clinic we changed our name – Source Point Community Health CIC was born with a new legal structure (Community Interest Company) supporting us to help you back to health and wellbeing.

During this time we also changed our treatment options offering ‘Choose Your Practitioner’ so that you have the option to stay with the same clinician throughout your treatment if you so wish.