Expenses of British health care on homeopathy decreased seven times
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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The cost of British health care for homeopathy decreased seven and a half times in 15 years. In 2010, employees of the National Health Service of Great Britain (NHS) issued more than 16,000 prescriptions for homeopathic remedies.
The total cost of drugs prescribed to the British is estimated at 122 thousand pounds sterling. Thus, only one-thousandth of the NHS budget was spent on homeopathic treatment, which is about 11 billion pounds.
According to the Information Center of the British Health Service, in 2000 doctors prescribed 134 thousand prescriptions for homeopathy worth 831 thousand pounds. The peak of expenses for non-traditional method of treatment (915 thousand pounds) was fixed in 1996.
In the summer of 2010, participants at the annual conference of the British Medical Association (BMA) voted to end funding for homeopathy by the NHS. A few months earlier, several hundred British organized a protest against the unconventional method. Participants of the action tried to perform an indicative "overdose" with homeopathic remedies to refute their effectiveness.
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