Comment: NHS should not waste our cash on homeopathy

From the UK Daily Telegraph...

The NHS spends around £4 million a year on dispensing homeopathy to patients. But the total amounts to considerably more: for example, more than £20 million was spent refurbishing the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, and there are at least two more “homeopathic hospitals” paid for out of NHS funds.

What is the state doing spending any money at all on homeopathy? The “science” behind it is literally incredible. Most doctors are opposed to funding it. Some of them registered their objections to MPs last week, but the message may have fallen on deaf ears: in 2007, 206 MPs signed an early day motion which claimed that homeopathy offers “clinically effective and cost-effective solutions to difficult-to-treat conditions such as eczema, depression and irritable bowel syndrome” – which is nonsense. Even the Society of Homeopaths tells members to “avoid making claims implying [homeopathy] can cure any named disease”.

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