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Hollow Claims That The NHS Is Safe
Nov 11th
Dr Kailash Chand writing in the Indepenent: “The assertion that the NHS spending will grow in real terms is hollow: a commitment to a 0.1 per cent real-terms rise in annual spending is neither here nor there. With inflation in health-care running at more than 4 per cent, the NHS’s purchasing power for drugs and equipment will suffer significantly; much money will also be used to pay PFI debts.”
Calls To Scrap NHS Funding Of Homeopathy
Oct 28th
With a background of potentially devastating cuts to care services in the UK, the government continues to fund homeopathic treatment. Doctors have already called for NHS funding to be scrapped and now, Sir John Beddington, the government’s chief scientific adviser government says that funding for homeopathy risks legitimising unproven treatments and that patients could harm their health by choosing these over conventional vaccines and medicines
According to the Guardian today, “Tens of thousands of people are given homeopathic pills and other preparations by their GPs or at Britain’s four homeopathic hospitals, at an estimated cost to the NHS of between £4m and £10m a year. Most homeopathic remedies are diluted multiple times to the point that only water is left, while others are essentially sugar pills.”
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