NHS cut funding for pseudoscience
Austerity prompts an end to subsidised quackery
Published in
Jan 15, 2018
In 2017, NHS England announced plans to radically cut its drug bill to rescue ailing finances.
To achieve this, the NHS will stop issuing prescriptions for over-the-counter medicines (e.g. cough mixture, cold treatments, eye drops, laxatives, sun cream).
The NHS also plans to cut funding for placebo-mediated #pseudoscientific treatments such as #herbalism and #homeopathy.
Poor outcomes of behavioural therapies suggest the NHS should add #CognitiveBehaviouralTherapy and #hypnotherapy to their list of cuts.
