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House of Lords Select Committee Report
The report on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology was produced following a 15 month enquiry. With use of CAM across the developed world increasing, the enquiry set out to establish:
- whether there were good structures of regulation to protect the public
- whether an evidence base had been accumulated and research carried out
- whether there were adequate information sources available
- whether training arrangements were adequate what the NHS should provide.
The 140 page report is wide ranging, but the main recommendations are:
- that there is a clear need for more effective guidance for the public as to what does or does not work
- that the public interest will be best served by improved regulatory structures of many CAM professions
- that government should, through a ten year programme, develop a small number of centres of excellence for conducting CAM research
- that in terms of NHS provision, only those CAM therapies which are statutorily regulated, or have a powerful mechanism of voluntary regulation, should be made available through the NHS.
(extract from The Foundation for Integrated Medicine, Dec 2000 )
See also:
Activities: Voluntary Self-Regulation
