§ 31. Mr. TredinnickTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the change in the total funding for complementary medicine services from health authority budgets in the past year. [77729]
§ Ms JowellInformation about health authority spending on complementary medicine services is not available centrally.
It is for local purchasers and clinicians to decide how their resources would best be used to meet the health needs of their populations, having taken into account all of the available evidence as to the most appropriate and effective forms of treatment, whether conventional or complementary. We shall, however, be studying the use that the new primary care groups make of complementary medicine.