Enquiry into the Cost of the National Health Service Enquiry into the Cost of the National Health Service The Enquiry into the Cost of the National Health Service, known popularly as the Guillebaud Report, was a 1956 report of the UK Parliament into the financial efficiency of the National Health Service. The chair of the independent Committee of Enquiry, and lead author of the report, was the Cambridge economist C. W. Guillebaud. The enquiry was called by the Conservative government and announced on 1 April 1953 by the then Health Minister, Iain Macleod. The National Health Service (NHS) had been established in 1948 and, in its first few years,
Homeopathic hospitals in the National Health Service for by the NHS. Following guidance from NHS England management that NHS spending on homeopathic treatments should cease, and that GPs should be advised to "de-prescribe" the treatments for existing patients, the British Homeopathic Association brought a lawsuit against the NHS. In 2018, the High Court ruled in favor of NHS England. , Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, now renamed the Centre for Integrative Care, is the only remaining NHS hospital offering homeopathic treatment, with an annual budget of £1.7m. NHS homeopathic hospitals included: Homeopathic hospitals in the National Health Service The UK National Health Service has historically supported a number of