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Wellness and wellbeing are not new concepts as it these ideas were already formulated and set out in the World Health Organisation Policies in the middle of the previous century.  What is new though, is its implementation, for new thinking takes time to become accepted. However, instead of becoming part of mainline medicine, the wellness paradigm has now found its own framework, structure and programme as part of complementary and integrative medicine. The reason for this ongoing split between the wellness approach and orthodox allopathic medicine is due to the difference in respective objectives, methodology and scope of practice.  Whereas the biomedical model remains a pathogenic approach, wellness, in contrast is a salutogenic model; this means that whilst allopathic medicine is analytic, reductionist and disease orientated, wellness seeks to improve, takes the total person into account as bodymind unity and relies on the human system as biopsychosocial