Hospital closed down! Hooray!

Confused? Well don't worry. The hospital which has been closed down is Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital.

West Kent Primary Care Trust has been conducting a review of all its funding.

Up until now, part of it has been paying for patients to be treated at the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital, or at a clinic in Bromley.

Spokeswoman Emma Burns said the move was because "the NHS has to decide the best use of money on the evidence of clinical effectiveness".

Trust executives recommended to board members at a meeting that the £160,000 spent on treatments each year could be better spent elsewhere.

It follows a lengthy and extensive public consultation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7015675.stm

Having lived in T. Wells between the ages of 8 and 18, I was quite pleased with this news.

There was a report on Channel Four News shortly before this which is well worth watching:
http://dcscience.net/channel4-news-210907.wmv

Within the video, Tim Crayford (Association of Directors of Public Health) explains very clearly:

It is more to do with a point of principle. There are very many really effective treatments that the NHS can’t currently afford to provide. And should we not be ensuring that the limited resources we’ve got in the NHS go to the things that
really work well, and are going to save lives”

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