Family doctors are still spending tens of thousands of pounds every year on bogus homeopathic products, MailOnline can reveal.
spending on the quack medical treatment was effectively banned four years ago after it was ruled an ineffective use of taxpayer’s money.
But GPs in England have still prescribed nearly £150,000 of homeopathic items since 2018 – the first full year after the ruling, analysis shows.
Family doctors have also spent £280m of taxpayer funds on doling out paracetamol, despite the NHS begging GPs to send people to buy it for 5 Meo Dmt Retreat Texas pennies at supermarkets instead.
Homeopathy was discontinued in the NHS in England in 2017 due to a lack of evidence however, official dats shows some medics are still prescribing it a taxpayers’ expense (stock image)
Analysis shows GPs in England have prescribed a total of £138,249 of homeopathy treatments since 2018, after NHS bosses banned taxpayer spend on the bogus treatment
Whilst homeopathy spend has, on the whole, been declining since the 2018 ban, a prohibition on family doctors prescribing the common painkiller paracetamol and instead sending patients to buy them at supermarkets has broadly remained the same and has cost the taxpayer £281million over four years
GPs have also spent tens of thousands on dishing out normally illicit drugs cocaine and 5 Meo Dmt Retreat Texas ketamine, almost £70,000 and £100,000, respectively.
Whilst both cocaine and ketamine have their legitimate medical uses, the spend on homeopathy comes at a time of increasing pressure on NHS budgets.
Repeated scientific studies have found 200-year-old ‘treatment’ is no more effective than a placebo.
Homeopathy operates on a logic that ‘like cures like’, so a substance that effectively causes certain symptoms can be, in theory, used to treat similar conditions.
