Monthly Newsletter

February 2016

Welcome to our regular monthly update on our projects and progress, designed to give our supporters an insight into some of the things we're working on and how you might be able to help. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested in hearing more about Good Thinking's work.

Have your say on NHS Homeopathy funding in the Wirral

Last year, we challenged NHS Liverpool CCG over their decision to spend over £30,000 per year on homeopathic remedies. We are expecting the results of the consultation soon, but meanwhile some of the few remaining CCGs to still fund homeopathy are beginning to conduct their own consultations, with NHS Wirral CCG next to seek the opinions of the public on the funding of homeopathy.

You can share your thoughts with the CCG via their online survey, which is open to everyone, even if you are not a resident of the Wirral: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WHDHW3X

If you’d like to understand more about the consultation, the accompanying pages offer some insights into the issues surrounding homeopathy in the Wirral.

Please take 5 minutes to ensure the reputation of the NHS is not used to lend credibility to a system of alternative medicine that can offer no benefits to patients. Once you’ve taken the survey, be sure to share it with friends and colleagues – the more support NHS Wirral CCG gets for ending homeopathy funding, the better chance we have of helping them make this decision happen.

As a registered charity, we rely on your support to continue our work. You can support Good Thinking by making a small monthly donation, or a one-off donation.

If you've seen something you'd like us to investigate, or if you'd like our advice on an issue you're facing or an activist idea you're working on, please get in touch.

In other Good Thinking news this month:

Our complaint about Peter Popoff's TV show is upheld by regulators
Our investigation into Peter Popoff involved complaints about the broadcasting of TV slots in which Popoff advertises his ‘miracle water’, broadcast via a TV channel based in Iceland. Recently, Iceland’s Ministry of the Interior’s Media Committee upheld our complaint. This month we also released images of every letter Popoff has sent us throughout the last year.
Read the outcome of the complaint >>

Ask your vet to speak out against using homeopathy for animals
If you agree that pets should not be subjected to pseudoscientific treatments when they are ill, you can join 1800 others and sign the petition now. If you’re a pet owner, we’d also like you to write to your vet using the template letter below as a guide, to ask them to add their name to the petition. So far, over 700 vets have signed on – will your vet join them?
Send our letter to your vet >>

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