The regulation of CAM practice in the UK: can it achieve its aim in safeguarding the public?
The regulation of CAM practice in the UK: can it achieve its aim in safeguarding the public?
The number of people accessing CAM continues to attract considerable media and policy attention. The NHS has a long history of CAM commissioning; homeopathy has resided within the NHS since its establishment in 1948 and the NHS still operates four homeopathic hospitals treating 55?000 NHS patients a year at an annual cost of £6 million.1 Moreover, NHS treatment centres continue to provide CAM2 and one in four GP surgeries make acupuncture, osteopathy and chiropractic available to their patients
adverse events, complementary and alternative medicine, ethics, evidence-based practice, statutory regulation
167-170
Hunt, Katherine
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August 2009
Hunt, Katherine
5eab8123-1157-4d4e-a7d9-5fd817218c6e
Hunt, Katherine
(2009)
The regulation of CAM practice in the UK: can it achieve its aim in safeguarding the public?
Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, 14 (3), .
(doi:10.1211/fact.14.3.0003).
Abstract
The number of people accessing CAM continues to attract considerable media and policy attention. The NHS has a long history of CAM commissioning; homeopathy has resided within the NHS since its establishment in 1948 and the NHS still operates four homeopathic hospitals treating 55?000 NHS patients a year at an annual cost of £6 million.1 Moreover, NHS treatment centres continue to provide CAM2 and one in four GP surgeries make acupuncture, osteopathy and chiropractic available to their patients
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Published date: August 2009
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adverse events, complementary and alternative medicine, ethics, evidence-based practice, statutory regulation
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Faculty of Health Sciences
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/156609
ISSN: 1465-3753
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