Connect Physical Health sells quackery to NHS
A constant theme of this blog is that the NHS should not pay for useless treatments. By and large, NICE does a good job of preventing that. But NICE has not been allowed by the Department of Health to look at quackery.
I have the impression that privatisation of many NHS services will lead to an increase in the provision of myth-based therapies. That is part of the "bait and switch" tactic that quacks use in the hope of gaining respectability. A prime example is the "College of Medicine", financed by Capita and replete with quacks, as one would expect since it is the reincarnation of the Prince’s...
Source: DC's Improbable Science - June 10, 2013 Category: Pharmacists and Pharmacologists Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: acupuncture chiropractic Connect Physical Health craniosacral evidence National Health Service UCLH badscience College of medicine NHS Source Type: blogs
