Fund Complementary Therapies on the NHS

"My partner had an illness that has yet to be treated on the NHS. He was left in a wheelchair and had 18 months with no treatment from teh NHS (despite our trying). The only treatment he received, we paid for ourselves and these were complementary therapie"

"As a carer the power of touch is a fundemental need for people to be able to communicate with their out side world,"

"This would be great not only would it stop health boards wasting money it potenetially could reduce the waiting list as ,a number of teir two therapies could be working more closely with tier 1 and GP's making the patients lives better overall."

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"Complimentary medicines are older and therefore have been established centuries before scientific medicines and should be put in their rightful place."

"I take and have found that complementary therapies work very well"

"I would like to see this if training is of a high standard and there is regulation of professional groups"

"Acupuncture was the only therapy that helped my condition"

"Complementary therapies need to be freely available to everyone."

"As a nurse myself working in the NHS and also a reflexologist i am sure patients will benefit for complementry therapies to made available and cut the cost in the long run"

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"I currently treat clinic patients with bowen for free and know that there is a demand for this sort of therapy within the NHS"

"It's strange that each time a well known figure like Prince Charles embraces complimentary therapies the establishment wheel out some closed minded experts who choose to look in one direction only and that is usually to totally ignore strong evidence."