§ Mr. Wareingasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on his policy towards the use of alternative medicine; and if he has any plans to establish a regulating body to control its practitioners.
§ Mrs. CurrieMedical practitioners in the National Health Service can offer any form of treatment, including alternative medicine, which they consider to be in the interests of their patients and which they feel competent to provide. Practitioners of alternative medicine who work outside the National Health Service are at liberty to offer their services privately, subject to the provisions of statute and civil law. We have no present intention to establish a regulating body to control its practitioners.