Homoeopathy survived through the fifties and sixties but it was not until the seventies that it began to flourish again. Now the situation of fifty years ago has reversed with a small number of doctor homoeopaths working in the beleaguered NHS and a much larger number of professional homoeopaths working mostly in private practice. The introduction of fund-holding for NHS GPs allowed some doctors to purchase the services of professional homoeopaths for their patients. However, it is still a small part of what homoeopaths do and it does have some distinct disadvantages. Many in the homoeopathic community choose their own way of bringing homoeopathy to a wider world, especially that part which cannot normally afford it.
Some homoeopaths run low cost clinics, especially for children.
These serve a dual purpose in that by providing successful homoeopathic treatment for people who would not normally consider it, they show exactly how good a therapy it is and in the long run such clinics bring in new, often paying, patients. Other homoeopaths work with groups that help people with a particular disease, the homeless or the disabled. Companies such as The Homoeopathic Supply Company, which supplies bottles and pills to many homoeopaths and Kent Road Books, which supplies homoeopathic computer software, operate a system of tithing, in which they give a proportion of their profits, usually ten per cent, to charities. There are a number of homoeopathic charities doing all sorts of excellent work. The three whose work is outlined below are very different but they share an approach that is three-directional.