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NHS homeopathic hospitals

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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.

    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.

    References

    NHS homeopathic hospitals Wikipedia
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