Complementary medicine is a significant and mostly privately funded component of the healthcare landscape.   

Preliminary studies and usage patterns indicate that complementary medicine may represent substantial potential in disease prevention, in addressing the burden of chronic disease and achieving greater health and wellbeing at reduced cost.

NICM has commissioned a study that will help determine the relative value of complementary medicine interventions to the community.   In particular, this study seeks to apply relevant cost-effectiveness modelling to key areas of promise in complementary medicine.

This study will be released before the end of 2009.

Updated January 2009