2022-001338
- Date of request
- 24 August 2022
- Date of response
- 16 September 2022
- FOI request ID
- 2022-001338
- Pharmacy and prescribing
Request
Please could you supply under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002:
1. What the health board's current position is on funding homeopathic medicine.
2. Was any discussion or review carried out on funding homeopathic medication by the health board following NHS England's advice in 2017 to primary care settings to not routinely prescribe homeopathic medication due to evidence of low clinical effectiveness.
3. Any papers, minutes, briefings and/or notes of, or relating to, decisions taken by the health board on homeopathic medication since 2017.
4. If the health board does fund homeopathic medication please detail how this is dispensed.
5. For the 2021/22 period (or if data is not available for 21/22 for the most recent financial year data you do have available) how much was spent by the health board on homeopathic medication.
I request that this information be provided in a digital format