By Colin Fernandez and Rosie Taylor for the Daily Mail
Published: 22:00 BST, 7 April 2019 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 7 April 2019
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Homeopathic treatments will be blacklisted by the NHS after it emerged GPs are issuing thousands of prescriptions a year – despite being told to stop.
NHS experts say the alternative ‘medicines’ have no credible scientific evidence to support their continued use and are a ‘misuse of public funds’.
Since 2017, official NHS England guidelines have advised against prescribing the treatments which it warns are ‘at best a placebo’.
Homeopathic medicine will banned by the NHS because they are a 'misuse of public funds'
But new figures show GPs wrote out nearly 3,300 prescriptions for homeopathic remedies last year.
The NHS has now vowed to stamp out prescriptions for ‘homeopathic preparations’ – which last year cost the NHS £55,044.
Homeopathic pills and tinctures are so heavily diluted that they do not contain active ingredients.
Emeritus Professor, and former chair of complementary medicine, at the University of Exeter Edzard Ernst said: ‘Homeopathy is based on 200-year-old misunderstandings about
