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[post_content] => A NHS trust in Scotland has defended prescribing homeopathy to patients on the grounds of patient choice.
NHS Grampian was criticised after figures showed it spent £87,706 on prescriptions for 'alternative treatments' in 2017-18 with a projected bill of £97,000 for 2018-19.
Tom Mason, the Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland, said people would question the spending on homeopathy, adding that NHS England had banned prescription of it.
“Scotland is now the only part of the UK where this happens, and several other Scottish health boards don’t spend anything on these treatments,” he told the Aberdeen Press and Journal.
A spokesman for the trust said it had a responsibility to "use NHS resources carefully and balance our priorities across the population as well as individuals".
“Homeopathy can be considered in this arena and we remain connected with the wider debate on its role within the NHS while regularly reviewing our local support for such services within NHS Grampian,” the spokesman said.
Ian Hamilton, a RSHom based in Dunkeld, Perthshire, said it was good to see NHS Grampian continuing to prioritise patient choice in its approach to prescribing and giving ordinary people a range of options for making decisions about their health.
"It continues a long tradition of Scottish homeopathy, with famous figures like Sir John Weir, physician to the Royal Family and head of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, as hugely important homeopaths on the national stage," he added. "It would be a great loss to the health of Scottish people if homeopathy were not supported in this way by local NHS services."
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A NHS trust in Scotland has defended prescribing homeopathy to patients on the grounds of patient choice.
NHS Grampian was criticised after figures showed it spent £87,706 on prescriptions for ‘alternative treatments’ in 2017-18 with a projected bill of £97,000 for 2018-19.
Tom Mason, the Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland, said people would question the spending on homeopathy, adding that NHS England had banned prescription of it.
“Scotland is now the only part of the UK where this happens, and several other Scottish health boards don’t spend anything on these treatments,” he told the Aberdeen Press and Journal.
A spokesman for the trust said it had a responsibility to “use NHS resources carefully and balance our priorities across the population as well as individuals”.
“Homeopathy can be considered in this arena and we remain connected with the wider debate on its role within the NHS while regularly reviewing our local support for such services within NHS Grampian,” the spokesman said.
Ian Hamilton, a RSHom based in Dunkeld, Perthshire, said it was good to see NHS Grampian continuing to prioritise patient choice in its approach to prescribing and giving ordinary people a range of options for making decisions about their health.
“It continues a long tradition of Scottish homeopathy, with famous figures like Sir John Weir, physician to the Royal Family and head of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, as hugely important homeopaths on the national stage,” he added. “It would be a great loss to the health of Scottish people if homeopathy were not supported in this way by local NHS services.”