Date published: 2006/05/23
The BBC says:
Some of Britain's leading doctors have urged NHS trusts to stop using complementary therapies and to pay only for medicine "based on solid evidence".
In a letter, reproduced in the Times, they raised concern the NHS is backing "unproven or disproved treatments", like homeopathy.
One doctor said the NHS was funding "bogus" therapies when patients struggled to get drugs like Herceptin.
Prince Charles is to make a speech in Geneva backing complementary therapies.
He is expected to renew his call for a more integrated approach, using proven complementary treatments alongside conventional medicines in order to tackle long-term, chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke, in a speech to the World Health Assembly.
The letter, on behalf of 13 people and sent to 476 acute and primary care trusts, is being seen as a direct challenge to the prince's campaign.
These folks are onto a losing battle. Belief in complementary medicine, in particular homeopathy, is just that, a matter of faith, not science, and many people in the world are unfortunately guided by faith rather than by reason. The fact that Charles believes in this claptrap is not very surprising, given his general wooly beliefs.
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