The hospital where the Queen’s homeopath works has been banned from offering homeopathy to NHS patients for disobeying health service policy.
An audit found that the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine had been wrongly charging the alternative treatment to taxpayers. The hospital is Europe’s biggest publicly funded centre for alternative medicine and has been offering homeopathy since it was founded in 1849.
The ruling will now put further pressure on other NHS units offering the treatment. Last year Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, called homeopathy “at best a placebo and a misuse of scarce NHS funds”.
