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NHS England votes to defund homepathy, finally. 'The decision to end primary care prescriptions for homeopathy means that homeopathy funding is now restricted purely to some NHS Trusts clinics in Scotland, London, and South West England.' Hopefully the rest will follow soon...

'A misuse of scarce funds': NHS to end prescription of homeopathic remedies A public consultation has just opened on whether a number of treatments, including homeopathy, should be available. The consultation, open until 21st October, is linked from the third paragraph of the story.

This is a split thread from the Brexit-focused Now What? thread. I don't like the way the junior doctors are new being provoked into going private, or encouraged to emigrate, by the government causing NHS strikes. It's not good human relations. The same sort of thing happened a few years ago...

What is an "NHS Independent Provider"? Notorious "Renowned" Dissociative Identity Disorder inducers sorry, therapists Valerie Sinason and Rachel Thomas' website, Clinic For Dissociative Studies has a banner that looks like this: Rachel Thomas' bio says: http://clinicds.co.uk/?page_id=79...

In a recent multi-faceted study the NHS (UK health system) was ranked as the No1 healthcare system in the 11 wealthiest countries. The US system was ranked last out of the 11. Does this demonstrate that a primarily socialist national model of healthcare can be the most efficient and 'best'...

http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2014/04/the-saatchi-bill-a-quacks-charter.html#comment-88171

"NHS Lanarkshire is reviewing services provided by the Centre for Integrative Care (CIC, formerly known as the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital). "As part of the review process the patients and the public are being asked for their views on the service."...

Apologies if already posted but some excellent news. Publicity for a wishy washy entry regarding Homeopathy on the NHS Choices website caused a stink and has led to a re-wording. A victory for evidence. Seems the pressure is building in the U.K. following the comments recently by the Chief...

Anyone in the area want to respond to this? http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/OurOrganisation/Consultations/Current/Homeopathy/Pages/default.aspx

Time to shine, lords and ladies. Please prove to the country that there really is the need for an "upper house".

http://www.swindonlink.org/uploads/CAMs%20meeting%20letter%202nd%20June.pdf :rolleyes:

Here in the UK, it appears that a third of NHS trusts fund homeopathic treatment: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12492742 Public money is wasted in a similar fashion in other countries, to an even greater extent...

So I keep hearing that this is the end of the NHS and that it is the biggest reform ever. Can someone explain to me what it's all about?

Well it's taken them 62 years, but it looks like the Conservative party are finally about to demolish the NHS in all but name, by accelerating the New Labour plans to allow private companies to provide more and more healthcare services. Their inspiration for this has come from looking at the US...

I've also just posted this on Bad Science - let's see which forum generates the best discussion :D The conservatives are proposing a pretty radical shake up of the NHS....I was wondering what people thought. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/09/nhs-funds-distributed-doctors-reforms...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10364566.stm How long before we get back to having to plan your sickness a month in advance to get an appointment with your GP? (And that is not an exaggeration, my mother's GP's practice during the 90s ran with a minimum of a month wait for appointments)...

That's Dr Tom Dolphin, deputy chairman of the BMA junior doctors committee: Homeopathy is witchcraft, say doctors The motion was supported by the BMA chairman, and will become BMA policy if agreed by their full conference next month. Further down the story, the chief executive of the...

This morning I got a package through the post with 'NHS' on the top. Alarmed, I ripped it open, and was pleasently surprised to see that it was a free chlamydia testing kit: I presume every other person under 25 in the borough, if not the city got this pack, regardless of income. All I had...

Yes, another healthcare thread, but with a twist. Rather than us benighted citizens of countries with UHC systems trying to convince the stubborn Republican / Conservative / Libertarian opponents of universal healthcare that ours is the right approach, I'd like to take the opposite tack. Would...

One of the largest criticism's leveled against the NHS has been the long waiting times for various medical appointments, from surgery to mental health. This is a legitimate criticism. For example, my sister is currently waiting until September 12th for an eye appointment, as her eye is...

What are your opinions on healthcare ? Do you think countries should have nationalised healthcare providers like Britains NHS, to support those who cannot afford private health insurance ?

This thread is for the discussion on the PBS Frontline documentary Sick Around America, sequel to Sick around the World. Together they are about as long as Sicko and cover much of the same costs, but they are far more serious than Moore's entertainment flick, with a more down-to-earth approach...

As a male, I hardly ever go to the doctor. As a Scot, I don't have to pay for any health-care, yet I still don't see the GP. I'd consider myself a soft-libertarian, or libertarianish - but I can't really abandon the NHS in my head. I can't help but think that if people had to pay for they...

Helllooooooooo JREF!!!! I started this thread with the hope of brainstorming some ideas that might help reduce the cost of health care spending in the U.S. The only catch is that is needs to be reduced without switching to a Universal Health Care system. This Stossel video has some good ideas...

I've just received a leaflet through my door entitled: "GP services in your area are improving" In it is the following information: Below that is this: What is not mentioned is who will be running these polyclinics, which is likely to be private companies in many cases. GPs are getting...

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/the-price-of-life-ndash-it-was-16320000-now-nhs-drugs-body-recalculates-958708.html I can't wait to see the algorithm used to determine how much blame to attatch to patients and how it will affect the choice of treatments...

In the waiting room of my doctor's surgery yesterday I spotted a bundle of leaflets for Namaste' [sic] The Shiatsu Centre in amongst the official NHS leaflets. Concerned that these Shiatsu leaflets might be sanctioned by my GP I mentioned them to him at the end of my check-up. Turns out none...

It seems that in the NHS, patients are absolutely discouraged from taking up alternative therapies, but only if those therapies are alternative to the NHS's preferred treatments. is the case of a cancer patient who died after paying for a treatment, approved by the FDA, but not permitted to be...

This time by Simon Singh and Professor Edzard Ernst in today’s Daily Mail: Details of their new book Trick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial can be found here: http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/3703713/-/Product.html?searchstring=trick+or+treatment&searchsource=0

I picked this up from the previous thread on NHS funding of homeopathy, and thought it important enough to start a new one. Some of us have had a few battles with various public sector health sites, and now the NHS has surpassed itself with NHS Choices. Here is what it says about homeopathy. It...