Guidance on Prescription of Homeopathic Treatments: Ramifications of a Failed Administrative Law Challenge
Freckelton, I.
Journal of Law and Medicine 27(1): 50-54
2019
ISSN/ISBN: 1320-159X PMID: 31682341 Document Number: 699102
In R (on the application of British Homeopathic Association) v National Health Service Commissioning Board [2018] EWHC 1359 (Admin) Supperstone J of the High Court of England and Wales delivered an internationally significant judgment on the processes required to be engaged in when guidance is given to medical practitioners about their involvement in homeopathic prescribing. This column explores the bases upon which the challenge by the British Homeopathic Association was lost and the repercussions of the judgment for the practice of non-evidence-based modalities, such as homeopathy.