In 1987 Dr Daniel Benor first convened meetings of like-minded doctors who were interested in complementary therapies, and particular spiritual healing. At that time there were a few doctors working within the National Health Service who were on a quest to discover deeper causes of illness, and to look for less invasive treatments beyond the standard medical prescriptions. They realised there were missing factors about which they had not been trained, either at medical school, or in any post-graduate teaching. They were learning the importance of spiritual factors in their everyday work, which were not being addressed by the more orthodox churches. They were able to discover a few gallant souls who, despite holding down prestigious posts within the NHS, both in hospitals and general practice on occasions used unusual healing gifts consciously or unconsciously, on occasions in the course of their normal daily work. Three of these early DHN members had employed trained healers into their general practices for many years