NHS cut funding for pseudoscience

Austerity prompts an end to subsidised quackery

Grant Munro
Grant Munro
Jan 15, 2018

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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.

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