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The British Homeopathic Association (BHA) is a British charity founded in 1902 by John Epps to promote the pseudoscience
homeopathy Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a dis ...
and advocate for its training and research. The BHA was re-branded in 2021 to Homeopathy UK. It seeks to encourage the use of homeopathy within general and specialist healthcare, and provides a listing of homeopathic practitioners. From 1902, the BHA co-sponsored the Missionary School of Medicine, a school of medicine for medical missionaries. The charity also campaigns for more homeopathy in Britain's
National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...
(NHS). Homeopathy is a form of
alternative medicine Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or evidence from clinical trials. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alt ...
in which practitioners claim to treat patients using highly dilutedUK Parliamentary Committee Science and Technology Committee
"Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy"
/ref> preparations that they baselessly claim to cause healthy people to exhibit symptoms that are similar to those exhibited by the patient. The BHA has been accused of misrepresenting evidence submitted to the House Of Commons Evidence Check On Homeopathy. Analysis of the evidence submitted by the British Homeopathic Association contains many examples of
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, where the conclusions of scientific papers were selectively quoted to make them appear to support the efficacy of homeopathic treatment. For example, one paper's conclusion was reported as "There is some evidence that homeopathic treatments are more effective than placebo" without the immediately following caveat "however, the strength of this evidence is low because of the low methodological quality of the trials. Studies of high methodological quality were more likely to be negative than the lower quality studies."
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's public consultation in July 2017 "to drive out wasteful and ineffective drug prescriptions" resulted in the recommendation, in November 2017, that
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should stop prescribing homeopathy to patients. The BHA "believed it had identified serious flaws" in the consultation's process and sought a judicial review, crowdfunding donations from supporters to support the legal action. In May 2018, Mr Justice Supperstone heard the case at the
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, London and, in June, he upheld NHS England's original decision to cease funding homeopathy. NHS England announced its intention to "reclaim £120,000 in legal costs" from the BHA, arguing "that taxpayers should not pick up the tab for “tap water masquerading as medicine”". In May 2019, the charity changed its name t
Homeopathy UK


See also

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Faculty of Homeopathy The Faculty of Homeopathy was formed in 1944 from the British Homeopathic Society (founded in 1844). It was incorporated by the Faculty of Homeopathy Act 1950, which confers an educational function on the Faculty. The Faculty promotes the developm ...
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Society of Homeopaths The Society of Homeopaths (SoH) is a British private limited company formed in 1978 by "a small group of homeopaths who were keen to work together for the development of the profession and to ensure high standards in the practice of homeopathy" and ...
* Homeopathy in the United Kingdom


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