NHS wasted £4 million on treatments that don’t work.

Today MPs are calling for NHS funding for 2 homeopathic hospitals be stopped. The NHS spends £4million supporting these hospitals whose treatments have failed to show any benefit in clinical trial after clinical trial. The Government should not allow homeopathic “treatments” to be sold let alone support them until it is proven that they work, something which has so far proved impossible. If homeopathy is correct the NHS should only spend £10 on these hospitals as it would be more effective than £4million

• Samuel Hahnemann, a German, is crediting with inventing homeopathic medicine in 1796
• Remedies are prepared by repeated dilution of an active ingredient. The most dilute preparations are meant to be the most potent
• Doses are measured on the centesimal or “C scale”, whereby a substance is diluted by a factor of 100 at each stage. Typical strength is 30C — diluted by a factor of 10 followed by 60 zeros
• Poisons, including arsenic and deadly nightshade, are used as remedies but in such dilute form that even a large dose would be harmless
• The European homeopathy industry is valued at £1.5 billion