NICE accept complementary therapies anecdotal value evidence in all guidelines

Rejected 16 signatures

What the petition asks

National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) emphasise clinical trials as evidence for guidelines so mainly pharmaceutical approaches. Effectively this excludes qualitative evidence eg anecdotal & people choosing to pay privately for complementary therapies. This minimises funding.

Complementary therapies are often based on Ancient cultures which have proved themselves through the years. Whilst I recognise a need to use our updated understanding of healthcare, we also need to work together with allopathic medicine & the complementary healthcare therapies to offer a more complete integrated healthcare system. This supports & encourages each person to understand their own health better & also develop their self-help. Therapies are not alternative but need integrating.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an independent statutory body which is operationally independent of the UK Government. You may wish to contact them directly: https://www.nice.org.uk/get-involved/contact-us

If you wanted the UK Government to fund more research into complementary therapies, we could accept a petition on that.

Timeline

4 May 2016	Petition opened for signatures
2 Jun 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 16

Status Rejected

Rejected 2 Jun 2016

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