In the wake of the publication of the Science and Technology Committee’s evidence check on homoeopathy, the BBC managed to dig up someone to go on TV and claim that homeopathy cured her cancer:
Gemma Hoefkens is, as the BBC report notes, a practising homeopath – she currently charges £50 for a first consultation and then [...]
Having given a little thought, there are a couple of things I want to pick up on from yesterday’s article on the NHS’s co-payments policy.
The first comes by way of a little bit more research into the Doctors for Reform campaign group, research that yielded up the inevitable opinion poll which the group claims, as [...]
It’s seems to be the lot of bloggers, in today’s world of 24 hour churnalism, to do the job that investigative journalists used to do and, so it seems, nowhere more so than when it comes the reporting of health ‘issues’, especially those in which public policy plays both a significant part and finds its [...]

