Charities that promote unproven treatments for sick patients could be stripped of their charitable status under proposals being considered by the UK government’s regulator.
The Charity Commission is reviewing how it decides which organizations qualify as charities – a status that brings authority as well as tax breaks – after it received complaints that some organizations make unfounded claims about complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies.
The Commission has received more than 300 responses to a public consultation on the issue, which closes on Friday, with many submissions coming from charities themselves. The British Homeopathic Association, which believes that CAM charities are being unfairly targeted by the review, points out that doctors and nurses around the world use CAM therapies in daily practice because they believe they help patients.
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