Should Chinese medicines be available on NHS? @david_colquhoun tells @DriveWithRob they shouldn't.

Yesterday, the Health Secretary responded to this question:

David Tredinnick (Bosworth) (Con): In his travels to the People’s Republic of China, what has my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State learned about the integration of western medicine with traditional Chinese medicine?

Mr Jeremy Hunt: What I have learned is that the most important thing is to follow the scientific evidence. Where there is good evidence for the impact of Chinese medicine, we should look at that, but where there is not, we should not spend NHS money on it.

So should medicine like this be funded by the public purse? Professor of pharmacology at UCL, David Colquhoun, spoke to Roberto Perrone on @BBC3CR