In 2016, it was estimated that NHS expenditure on homeopathy still amounted to about £5 million, in spite of repeated campaigns to remove homeopathy from the list of treatments paid for by the NHS.[56] In July 2017, the NHS announced a policy of not funding homeopathic medicine because it is "a misuse of resources";[57] they also called on the UK Department of Health to add homeopathic remedies to the blacklist of forbidden prescription items,[58] and the NHS ceased funding homeopathic remedies in November 2017.[59] Following guidance from NHS England management that NHS spending on homeopathic treatments should cease, and that GPs should be advised to "de-prescribe" the treatments for existing patients, the British Homeopathic Association brought a lawsuit against the NHS. In 2018, the High Court ruled in favour of NHS England.[60][61]