HC Deb 26 January 1994 vol 236 cc298-9W
Sir Donald Thompson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much the NHS spent on complementary therapies in each of the last three years for which figures are available;

(2) what definition the NHS uses of the therapies regarded as complementary; and if she will list the therapies;

(3) how many NHS hospitals provide treatment considered to be complementary medicine.

Mr. Sackville

There is no common definition in use within the national health service of complementary therapies, therefore figures on how much the NHS spent and the number of NHS hospitals where treatments are given cannot be provided.

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