Tunbridge Wells homeopathic hospital to close.

[bobdezon]

According to this report from the BBC today…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7437962.stm (1 min 38secs)
the Bristol Homoeopathic Hospital is in trouble as well because not enough patients are using it.

Maybe they could dilute their patient list a bit?

[bindeweede]

Campaigners look to have lost their fight to save a leading homeopathic hospital, in a landmark case that accelerates the treatment’s deepening crisis over NHS funding.


West Kent PCT decided there was ‘not enough evidence of clinical effectiveness’ to justify funding routine homeopathic consultations and treatments at the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital, a decision which may force its closure.

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.as...de=4120260&c=2

[Blue Wode]

And rather than conceding that there’s not enough evidence of clinical effectiveness for homeopathy, John Cook, Chairman of the British Homeopathic Association, is blaming “managers with no experience of homeopathy” for the closure…
http://www.trusthomeopathy.org/csArticles/articles/000001/000165.htm


Meanwhile, the Society of Homeopaths doesn’t seem to have caught up with the news – it still seems to be busy "celebrating 60 years of homeopathy on the NHS":

The Society of Homeopaths supports the provision of homeopathy on the National Health Service which has been available since its creation on July 5 1948.

And The Society welcomes the latest Government review of the NHS which sets out a future with more patient choice, more community-led services…..(etc.)

http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/whats-new/press-releases.aspx

[Mojo]

Meanwhile, the Society of Homeopaths doesn’t seem to have caught up with the news – it still seems to be busy "celebrating 60 years of homeopathy on the NHS"

Well, they are celebrating "patient choice" there, so they must be delighted that the PCT has respected the wishes of the 66% of patients who didn't support funding of homoeopathy.