The Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has voted to end its funding for homeopathy at a meeting of its governing body today. The meeting comes after a public consultation, which overwhelmingly found in favour of ending NHS support for the treatment.



It means that homeopathy will no longer be available on the NHS in England outside London and the Bristol area.

In recent years, several other CCGs have ended NHS funding for the treatment, including those in central Manchester, Gateshead, Liverpool, Newcastle and Dorset. The only remaining English CCGs that provide the treatment are in North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, near Bristol – where, until recently, there was a homeopathic hospital – Bristol itself and London. It is still available in Glasgow and some other parts of Scotland.



Spokespeople for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCGs told BuzzFeed News that all three are planning to carry out a review and a public consultation exercise of their own at some point in the future, although a date has yet to be confirmed.



A 2010 House of Commons report found that homeopathy works no better than placebo, and said that the principles on which it is based are "scientifically implausible".

