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Closing the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital would be an enormous loss to many many NHS patients of all ages, as well as the NHS itself. It is a lie that homeopathy doesn't work. Many patients turned to it and found relief or cure when other drug treatments available on the NHS failed, or when interventions went wrong. It dramatically improved the quality of life with people with serious and terminal illnesses. To close the hospital would therefore represent a significant lowering of standards of care and treatment. It would be a loss for users and non users of homeopathy, as the option is cut off from those who may otherwise have benefited in the future. On the contrary lessons should be learnt from studying NHS patients who have benefited from homeopathy and seek to extend those benefits to more patients. Why is it considered scientific to refuse to find out why many people have so obviously benefited from using homeopathy when nothing else helped them? Already and unfortunately homeopathy uses up a miniscule part or the NHS budget. Yet it is given so much attention, and is so viciously attacked. Why are the advocates of expensive drugs and interventions, many of them at best ineffective but many causing harmful even life threatening side effects so frightened of homeopathy? Why do they feel so threatened?