Alternative Medicine

Mr. McMaster
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the development of homoeopathic and alternative medicine within the Scottish health service.

Mr. Michael Forsyth
The decision on whether to practise medicine using homoeopathic or other alternative treatments is for individual doctors. Doctors in contract  with the National Health Service can provide these treatments for their patients in the same way as they provide conventional medicines.