22/03/2012
Kaye asks listeners how the 2012 Budget will affect them. And the NHS spends four million pounds on homeopathy every year in the UK, but is it money well spent?
A leading professor of complimentary medicine, Ezard Ernst, has said that the lack of clinical proof, and the use of homeopathy as an alternative to conventional treatments is at best unethical and at worst, dangerous.
The NHS funds homeopathy to the tune of approximately 拢4m a year, and for the many fans of the treatment who swear by its effectiveness, it is money well spent, and is only a tiny drop in the vast ocean of health funding.
But for critics, it is a scientifically bogus treatment that is not subject to the same rigorous testing as conventional medicine, so in times of severe cuts in medical budgets, should the NHS still be funding homeopathy?
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