MPs recommend complementary, traditional and natural medicine to help overstretched NHS
A new report, by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare (PGIH), urges the NHS to embrace complementary, traditional and natural medicine to ease the mounting burden on service provision. The report, “Integrated Healthcare: Putting the Pieces Together”, recommends a whole person approach to health delivery focusing on prevention and tackling the root cause […]
CCG funding decision on homeopathy
By removing homeopathic referrals to the Portland Centre for Integrated Medicine (PCIM), Bristol CCG demonstrates a lack of sound decision making because this change will not help improve patient health or balance their books. It will have a negative impact on the lives of those in the care of Bristol CCG as most of the […]
Charity awaits judgement on its NHS England legal challenge
The British Homeopathic Association (BHA) – a charity that supports patients’ rights to homeopathic treatment on the NHS – is awaiting judgement on its legal challenge to NHS England’s 2017 consultation that ended with a recommendation that GPs should not prescribe homeopathic medicines. After four days of lengthy and detailed legal arguments at the Royal […]
BHA response highlights serious flaws in NHS England’s consultation
Regular visitors to the BHA’s website will know we have launched a legal challenge to NHS England’s consultation on their recommendation that GPs no longer prescribe homeopathy. Here we publish our submission to last year’s consultation.
NHS England and homeopathy
NHS England’s decision that homeopathy should not be prescribed in primary care is disappointing but not unexpected given the fundamentally flawed consultation it conducted around homeopathy. Instead of listening to patients who have benefited from the therapy, or to the doctors who have treated them, NHS England chooses to base its decision on the discredited […]