The Case for Homeopathy, NHS Homeopathic Centres of Excellence

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The GHH Outcome Score was developed specifically to measure the effects of treatment on patients with a wide range of acute and chronic conditions and is being used by other homeopathic hospitals to monitor the effectiveness of the service they provide. A new hospital, the first purpose-built homeopathic hospital since the 1920s, designed to provide a truly holistic healing environment, opened in January 1999.

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London
The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital is the leading homeopathic hospital in England, now part of University College London Hospitals NHS Trust. Its academic research department is responsible for carrying out major Randomised Controlled Trials and it has also produced an in-depth study of patients' perspectives on homeopathic and other complementary medicine and therapies. The hospital's complementary cancer therapy service is receiving a steadily increasing number of referrals of patients with a wide range of different primary and secondary cancers.

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Bristol
Homeopathic medicine has been available in Bristol since 1852. The homoeopathic hospital, now part of The United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust, sees a large number of chronic diseases and is often able to help arrest the progress of the disease and to relieve symptoms and improve the patient's quality of life. In an outcome audit of 2000 patients from 1 November 1997 to 31 October 1998, 75% were improved following homeopathic treatment. In common with other outcome studies at homeopathic hospitals, these results come from patients who are usually referred for homeopathy as a last resort because orthodox medicine has either failed to treat them or caused unacceptable side-effects.

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Tunbridge Wells
The hospital in Tunbridge Wells, part of Kent and Sussex Weald NHS Trust, is an outpatient unit working in co-operation with local acute medicine services. There are also clinics in Sevenoaks and Bromley. The hospital carries out about 3,500 patient consultations a year and is seeing growing numbers of referrals from GPs. The hospital's recently established foundation training course in homeopathy has attracted interest from over 100 local GPs for one of the 45 places. Tunbridge Wells is now engaged in a continuing programme of audit and has recently analysed figures for 1997. These show that on average 75% of patients report positive benefit for a range of conditions including eczema, chronic catarrh, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic back pain and psoriasis.

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Liverpool
The Department of Homoeopathic Medicine in Liverpool is part of North Mersey Community Trust. The department sees about 1000 new patients a year and treats a total of around 5,500 patients every year. An audit is currently underway at Liverpool in which outcomes for a total of 150 patients in various categories, including all new referrals in one particular month and all new arthritis patients during two consecutive months, are being scrutinised. Results so far are extremely positive, with a high percentage of patients showing an improvement in their presenting complaint, often a significant improvement. An overview of two weeks' clinics shows of patients being treated for asthma, 77% showed a moderate or significant improvement, while for eczema the figure was 68%, for depression 66%, for migraine 66% while for patients with menstrual-related problems and those with irritable bowel syndrome, the figure was 100% with moderate or significant improvement.

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