The Sam Buxton Sunflower Healing Trust is an exciting new charity that aims to provide integrated ,supportive care for cancer patients in the U.K. The charity was created in 2006 and since then we have supported thousands of cancer patients and their families.

Angie Buxton-King

Since 1988 I have worked as a healer of adults, children and animals. In 1995 my youngest son Sam was diagnosed with leukemia and passed away in 1998 aged 10. I have since felt very motivated to spread the knowledge that healing is a very beneficial tool when used alongside conventional medicine.

Over the past 9 years I have been employed by University College Hospital (UCH) as a healer working with cancer patients . For the past five years I have held the post of manager of the complementary therapy team within cancer services at UCH.

Over the years I have spoken at many medical and holistic conferences at home and abroad and in August 2004 my first book the “NHS Healer” was published by Virgin Books.

It has been a privilege to help so many people within the NHS setting and now with Sam’s Charity established we can move towards our next goal of providing funds to cancer centers to employ the services of healers to work allongside allopathic medicine.

Graham King

I qualified as a Reiki Master/Teacher in 1997 and in June 2003 joined the complementary therapy team at UCH working within cancer services.

Initially my work was with adult patients in haematology, I now work as part of a multi disciplinary team in paediatric oncology with children from 0-12 as well as teenagers from 13-19 with cancer.

It has been a great pleasure and challenge to move from the private sector into my role as a healer within the NHS seeing the benefits it has made to many lives, old and young. It is wonderful to be able to offer our patients the benefits of a holistic model of care. One of my goals now is to spread the word on how complementary medicine can benefit those within the hospital setting . My work was featured on BBC’s Inside Out London in October 2005 and my goal is to reach as many people as possible with the knowledge that there are many ways to help ourselves in our difficult times.