Salisbury #Homeopathy College is apparently permanently closed (hooray) & no longer accepting applicants. Its website still implies that it's courses are accredited by the Society of Homeopaths but the Soc has already removed it from its own list of accredited course providers. pic.twitter.com/sVtbgMSixb
— Jo-nuary Blues 🌊 ❄️ (@JoBrodie) February 7, 2021
It's always cheering news when something comes to an end in the world of homeopathy. We've seen University courses close, websites taken down or amended, and of course the numbers of homeopathic items prescribed on the NHS have been dropping precipitously for a couple of decades (it's still clinging on though).
Recently things have taken an even worse turn for homeopathy with bad news for homeopaths appearing in newspapers every few months, following a series of undercover reporting finding homeopaths making misleading claims and offering fake treatments or preventatives.
In January this year the Society of Homeopaths (SoH) lost its accreditation from the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). The PSA was concerned that the SoH had failed to prioritise public safety over the interests of its members and suspended accreditation, to be reviewed in one year.
The Salisbury Homeopathy College was one of several colleges to have a course accredited by the SoH, which keeps a list of accredited courses on its website. This listing appears to have been removed some time after October 2020, though the College's own website still carries SoH logos and the suggestion that its courses are accredited.
However it appears that the Salisbury Homeopathy College has now permanently closed. Its website says that it's no longer accepting applicants and its listing on Google indicates closure beyond mere opening hours. I don't know why it's closed or when that happened, but sadly the SoH still lists plenty of other places which will charge people fairly large sums of money (several thousand) to teach them nonsense.
You can read about one skeptic blogger's visit to the College on its open day in 2018. One of its courses cost nearly £10,000 - I'm amazed its former students don't sue.
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