NHS homeopathic hospitals
The UK National Health Service has historically supported a number of hospitals which were created to primarily offer homeopathic treatments. Following declining support within the NHS for homeopathy as a treatment, most of these have now either closed down, or been substantially modified in their activities.
They included:
- The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, renamed the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine in 2010
- Bristol Homeopathic Hospital, status unclear
- Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, now the Centre for Integrative Care on the Gartnavel Hospital campus
- Liverpool Homeopathic Hospital, originally known as the Liverpool Hahnemann Hospital and Dispensaries, closed in 1976
- Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital, closed in 2009
The parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee recommended in 2010 that prescipttion of homeopathy treatment on the NHS should cease.[1]
In 2016 it was estimated that NHS expenditure on homeopathy amounted to about £5 million. There have been repeated campaigns to remove homeopathy from the list of treatments paid for by the NHS.[2]
References
- ↑ "Science and Technology Committee - Fourth Report - Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy". www.publications.parliament.uk. House of Commons. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
- ↑ Triggle, Nick (2016-10-06). "Why does the NHS spend money on homeopathy?". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
See also
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