http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12492742
'A third of NHS trusts still fund homeopathy despite repeated calls for them to stop, an investigation has found.
GP magazine obtained data from two thirds of primary care trusts, showing 31% were paying for patients to use the highly-diluted remedies.
It comes after doctors and the House of Commons' Health Committee called for NHS funding of homeopathy to end.'
The above sums the article up. The 'investigation' was a poll by GP magazine. There is a clue in the title of the magazine, which bills itself as, 'the essential weekly newspaper for UK family doctors'. Not for UK patients, obviously, who are the ones actually paying for it. The estimated cost of funding four homeopathic hospitals and all the drugs, according to the article, is only around £4 million. Current overall health spending is £104 billion.
Let's put that into ratios. That's the equivalent of 4 to 104,000, or 1 to 26,000. So for every penny spent on homeopathy, the NHS spends £260 on other things. No one asks the taxpayers how much they would like to spend on homeopathy. As vastly more than 1 in 26,000 are in favour of it, the amount spent on homeopathy should perhaps increase instead.