1. Should CAM be funded by the NHS? or Do you really want your tax money to be used for fashionable quackery? SIM SALA......Yin Yang Abracadabra.....

2. Reasons for using CAM Moreover: Mostly rich people use CAM.

3. Fashion or real medical relief? Only 25% experienced real relief of injury or condition. Only 18% of the replies were related to NHS (not accessible) or GPs (referral) Most (96%) answers related to unscientific believes and general fashion trends. The NHS cannot fund fashion in public health care!

4. Problems of funding CAM builds dependencies, psychological addictions Expensive: £2,700,000,000 per year not well-researched time consuming 1:6 Lack of training Lack of standardisation - quacks Lack of rational data for public Lack of safety standards no single definition of CAM Alan Milburn, Health Secretary

5. NHS Priorities in the 2000 Reform Plan NHS is a 1940s system operating in the 21st century and needs to be reformed in terms of –standard, de-centralisation and autonomy of local health services, empowering patients, reducing waiting periods in emergency departments –The current budget will achieve by 2005: GP appointment in 48 hours, cancer screening programmes and available cancer drugs, free nursing care in nursing homes, diet improvement for children in schools (1 fruit a day), mental health teams, ONLY 3 months waiting periods for outpatients and 6 months for inpatients. (Currently 172 days for open heart surgery!!)

6. How would NHS services look like if 50,000 CAM practitioners, 5 million CAM patients, and 10,000 statutory registered health professionals who practise some form of CAM would be covered by the NHS??? £2,700,000,000 per year for CAM