THE Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire in the UK has announced that it will no longer routinely fund homeopathy remedies.
This was the last CCG in England to fund homeopathy.
Humanists UK, which responded to two consultations held by the CCG, has hailed this announcement as a victory for evidence-based medicine on the NHS.
This decision follows the decision of the board of NHS England in Nov last year to recommend to all CCGs that they end funding for homeopathic prescriptions and that the Secretary of State for Health should add homeopathy to the 'blacklist' of treatments so that it could not be provided on the National Health Service at all.
In Apr this year, the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (formerly the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital) ended all NHS-funded homeopathy.
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