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To the Editor.— The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital NHS Trust (RLHH), to our knowledge the only independent, public-sector hospital dedicated to complementary medicine (CM) in Europe, is committed to the evidence-based practice of CM.¹ The RLHH operates within the National Health Service in a system in which health authorities, led by a director of public health (DPH) and, increasingly, by primary care groups responsible for smaller populations, make health care purchasing decisions and negotiate service contracts with secondary health care institutions.

The Panel on Definition and Description of the US Office of Alternative Medicine defined CM as "a broad domain of healing resources that encompasses all health systems, modalities and practices and their accompanying theories and beliefs, other than those intrinsic to the politically dominant health system or a particular society or culture in a given historical period."² The same panel concluded that the boundaries between systems are not always . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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