John Lant & Partners provide independent osteopathic healthcare services in Cambridge located not far from Urgent Care Cambridgeshire (formerly CamDoc) at Chesterton Medical Centre. We are opposite the BUPA Nursing Home.

As a group practice established in 1971, we are committed to providing the highest standards of osteopathic healthcare and continuing professional training opportunities.

E-Appointments
Make an appointment by email What kinds of problems can osteopathy help with? Whilst back pain is the most common problem seen, osteopathy can help families with a wide varied of problems including changes to posture in pregnancy, babies with colic or sleeplessness, repetitive strain injury, postural problems caused by driving or work strain, the pain of arthritis and sports injuries among many others.

Tel: 01223 367661 [3 lines]

John Ogdon Lant
Head of Practice

John works with osteopathic patients in this Group Practice, with an interest in psychosomatic factors in promoting improved health pathways, working towards a specialist interest in older patients.

'Cognitive behaviour can provide a critical pathway for self assessment and recovery, through direct advice and health promotion education and problem solving in the biomechanical osteopathic field.’

‘Understanding the causes and self perpetuating factors in less efficient functional biomechanical areas, osteopathic treatment can address structural issues affecting joints, ligaments, muscle soft tissue and fascial stress.’ Returning to work and normal living for patients is a key element in our work, and advising on stress related issues in the home or work place.

John Ogdon Lant established the practice after University in Scotland and graduation from the British School of Osteopathy, London in 1971, following a two year period in an inner city Birmingham Clinic. He developed an interest in early degenerative change, reviewed and alleviated through treatment leading to an interest in helping older people with mobility, challenged health indices and other problems.

John was appointed Director of the Osteopathic Association of Great Britain (now the British Osteopathic Association, BOA) in 1988 and was subsequently appointed by the Privy Council in 1996 to be a member of the Statutory Council of the first General Osteopathic Council, the GOsC.

The General Osteopathic Council arose from the Osteopaths Act 1993 whose role is to regulate, develop and promote the profession of Osteopathy, the first new statutory self regulating body in the UK for over 40 years.

John was an Co-Editor of 'The Osteopath', a monthly national professional journal published by the GOsC and now available on-line. The range and scope of the Practice at John Lant & Partners has grown over the years and now offers a wide variety of services in addition to patients healthcare including health promotion, a popular series of Back Care Classes. It offers Osteopathic services through BUPA, AXA PPP Healthcare, WPA, Cigna, Remedi, C S Healthcare and other major private health insurance companies.

As part of his professional work, John Ogdon Lant acts as an Expert Witness working with lawyers in London, Surrey, Plymouth, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

John was appointed as an Independent Council Member to the Family Mediation Council (FMC) in 2007 after a period as Chairman of the regulatory UK College of Family Mediators. He is a Managers' Panel Member at Kneesworth House Psychiatric Hospital, was appointed Independent Chairman of the Nutritional Therapy Council in 2007 by the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health with funding by The Department of Health and is a Board Member and Chairman of the Resources & Marketing Sub-Committee of Dentists' & General Mutual Benefit Society.

In 2008 he was appointed Independent Chairman of the British Council for Yoga Therapy (BCYT), working towards voluntary regulation for Yoga Therapists, an initiative supported by the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, funded by The Department of Health.

In 2008 John was appointed to two Committees of the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC). The CNHC was established in 2008, heralding a new approach to the voluntary regulation of complementary therapies in the UK. It builds on the work already undertaken by many of the professional bodies within Complementary and Natural Healthcare. The CNHC will support consumer confidence and public trust which will in turn benefit all practitioners.

Significantly, the roles of the professional associations and the regulatory body are now separated in order to give increased clarity of function. John was Co-opted to the Board of The British School of Osteopathy, London in October 2010 and has recently been appointed as Vice Chairman to the Board.

He was appointed Chairman of CoastNet in 2011.

Past appointments have included working in the arts with English Sinfonia, The Arts Theatre Cambridge, The John Ogdon Foundation, Anglia Ruskin University (APU), The British School of Osteopathy, St Andrews University Cambridge Alumni, Cambridgeshire Consultancy in Counselling and the Cambridgeshire Osteopaths Group.

He enjoys playing the piano and is keen yachtsman with a Suffolk based Jeanneau Yacht moored at a Marina on the River Orwell. Other available time is spent with his wife Vicki who works nationally for SERCO Education Management, with five 'almost all grown up children' and five grandchildren scattered around the South East UK and Scotland.