Bid to overturn homeopathy crackdown

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Campaigners are seeking to overturn a decision by NHS bosses to recommend GPs no longer prescribe homeopathy.

The British Homeopathic Association has won the right to have a judicial review of the move.

It was proposed last year by NHS England after a consultation, which the BHA is arguing was flawed.

Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, has described homeopathy as "at best a placebo and a misuse of scarce NHS funds".

At the High Court, Richard Clayton QC, who is representing the BHA, said the consultation, which ran ahead of the decision in November, had been overly complicated and failed to present both sides of the argument.

He said there was "ample" evidence that homeopathy worked but the consultation had been "completely one-sided".

He also said the consultation documents were too technical and not understandable to the "ordinary person".

NHS England rejects the accusations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43950865
 
Is this a fight worth fighting? If prescriptions are costing the NHS £92000 a year, that’s pocket money. I have no truck with homeopathy, it’s on a level with witchcraft, but if people want to spend money on distilled water and sugar pills let ‘em. As long as it’s not NHS doctors and nurses being used in the clinics.
 
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Campaigners are seeking to overturn a decision by NHS bosses to recommend GPs no longer prescribe homeopathy.
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This is about our GPs prescribing. If it's worthless they it shouldn't be allowed in the NHS.
 
GPs have long prescribed placebos. I’m not going to reveal the Latin code words that alert the pharmacist, mind.
 
mikeyB said:
GPs have long prescribed placebos. I’m not going to reveal the Latin code words that alert the pharmacist, mind.
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There is an argument that placebos work. Really we need to nhs to be sticking to medical things as much as possible. Which means looking at outcomes.
 
mikeyB said:
GPs have long prescribed placebos. I’m not going to reveal the Latin code words that alert the pharmacist, mind.
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Adamus cum Flabello Dulci? 😉
 
I was so miserable with hay fever that I tried a homeopathic remedy - I did not believe that it would work - it was impossible that it could have any effect at all - just pure illogical thinking no chance of any benefit.

Not had hay fever since though.
 
Drummer said:
Not had hay fever since though.
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Hmmmm How many tried it and still had a fever? How about the hundreds who didn't and have not had a fever since either?
 
Hmmm, interesting, But according to what I have read the Queen has a homeopath. So there must be something in it methinks
 
rustee2011 said:
Hmmm, interesting, But according to what I have read the Queen has a homeopath. So there must be something in it methinks
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I think you`ll find that a psychopath the rest is Bollocks.
 
Maybe they could all ship out and deal with the current Ebola crisis. They kept quite last one too.
 
Hahaha - all you skeptics
 
My great-great-grandfather (<== this guy) was a locally well-known homeopath.

In those days, I like to think, it was often better for the patient than the bleeding, purging, head-shaving, hot iron-branding, sheep fat injecting etc etc of main-line medicine.

But not for long & these days it's just quackery.
 
I used homeopathic treatment for my Welsh cob stallion many years ago and it saved his life as conventional medicine did not help and the vets said the only option was a bullet. He lived for many years after he was treated.
 
Homeopathy is complete bunk. Nothing other than a successful double blind trial will ever convince me otherwise. Strange, that whenever it is properly tested, it behaves no better than placebo.

I loved the demonstration by James Randy to highlight this. At the start of his talk he downed a whole pot of pills. Then a bit later mentioned that they were homeopathic sleeping pills and the instructions suggested that he see a doctor if an overdose was taken! Unsurprisingly, he didn't feel sleepy at all!
 
Surely, the only way to overdose on homoeopathic meds is to take less than you're supposed to? 😉
 
robert@fm said:
Surely, the only way to overdose on homoeopathic meds is to take less than you're supposed to? 😉
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Or dilute them a zillion times & then just look at them?
 
If it really worked we’d all be on the Pill and multiple antibiotics.
 
Placebos. I did a research over a couple of days at Newcastle uni & we proved that the 3 groups where all the same on TV. ! group on the real stuff, ! group on placebo, & last group on powder. Magic ?😉
 
Did you see the programme about placebo painkillers recently? Fascinating.
 
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