Only at your own expense
In the UK, homeopathy is blacklisted
The National Health Service of Great Britain (NHS England) intends to apply to the Department of Health with an official requirement to include homeopathy in the "black list" in order not to waste money.
Adherents of homeopathy like to cite the example of the royal British family as proof of the effectiveness of this method. She, they say, is treated with homeopathy, and therefore all Windsors are distinguished by excellent health.
Despite this, back in 2017, the NHS issued guidance instructing doctors not to issue prescriptions for homeopathic medicines, which the health service's executive director described as "placebo at best" and "abuse of scarce NHS funds." In this guide, as part of a campaign to save £141 million a year, it announced the phasing out of 18 treatments with "low clinical efficacy", including homeopathy. Then, at the end of 2016, the NHS spent £92,000 on 6820 prescriptions of homeopathic remedies.
At the same time, official figures for 2017 showed that the number of prescriptions decreased by a quarter compared to 2016 – to about 5,100, and expenses decreased by 32% – to £63,000. However, the latest statistics show that, although the number of prescriptions issued last year decreased by another 35% – to 3,295, expenses decreased by only 13%, according to The Telegraph.
So, in 2018, doctors wrote out almost 3,300 prescriptions for homeopathic medicines, it cost the NHS a total of 55044 pounds. Professor David Calhoun, emeritus professor of pharmacology at University College London, said that this number of prescriptions, contrary to current recommendations, was "extremely high."
The annual cost of 55,000 pounds for prescribing homeopathic remedies is just the annual salary of two full–time British nurses. But it's not even about saving, as representatives of NHS England emphasize: "There is no clear or reliable evidence to support the use of homeopathy." And Professor Calhoun, commenting on the latest figures, said: "The leadership of NHS England was very clear – there is no benefit from homeopathy. Although the cost of the drugs is relatively small (compared to the entire NHS budget), it seems ridiculous that anyone is still prescribing them at all." And he advised the "true believers" in homeopathy to finance such treatment themselves.
In June last year, a High Court judge upheld NHS England's decision to stop funding homeopathic remedies after a case was brought against the service by the British Homeopathic Association (BHA).
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