Review of Medicines Act 1968: Informal consultation on issues relating to the product licences of right (PLR) regime and homeopathy

There was an invitation to respond to this consultation. Here's the email I sent:



Hi.


This whole project is lunacy. Why are you wasting tax-payers money on it? Why don’t you waste your time licensing sunlight and lettuce?


Even thinking about thinking about licenses for homeopathy is an insult to every hard-working NHS professional trying to alleviate people’s suffering using evidence-based practice. Anybody involved in such an endeavour should go take a long hard look at themselves in the bathroom mirror and then flush themselves down the toilet.


There, that’s what I think.


Regards


-        Dave Curtis


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Professor David Curtis

Consultant and Honorary Professor in Psychiatry

Dept Adult Psychiatry

3rd Floor Outpatient Building

Royal London Hospital

Comments

  1. Just zis Guy, you know?3 February 2011 at 11:00

    Ha! Strikes just the right tone of increduloous fury!

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  2. Zeno3 February 2011 at 11:00

    Succinct, accurate and to the point!

    Excellent.

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  3. Peter Blanchard3 February 2011 at 11:04

    They aren't wasting taxpayers' money. The MHRA say that the regulation of homeopathic remedies is funded entirely by registration fees. Not sure I believe that.

    The MHRA's proposals would generate considerable revenue. Homeopathic remedies with PLRs would need to be re-registered. This will cost the homeopathic pharmacies money. It may well be the case that the costs are too great to justify rarely sold remedies being re-registered. Some products might come off the market.

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  4. Zeno3 February 2011 at 11:12

    But the MHRA say they would 'not charge the normal fees' (paragraph 14 of the consultation document).

    It seems highly unlikely that the whole of the National Rules scheme has been paid for by their one successful application!

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  5. Jem3 February 2011 at 13:18

    Terrific email. Hope there are loads more like it.

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  6. PeterAReynolds20 August 2015 at 15:06

    Excellent.

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