Is the NHS getting better or worse?

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7431.107

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We need to ask the right questions

Robert Leckridge, associate specialist, homoeopathic medicine (bob.leckridge@virgin.net)

Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital, Glasgow G12 0XQ

EDITOR—Smith's editorial is entitled “Is the NHS getting better or worse?”1 Better or worse at what? Maybe one of the reasons we don't have the data to answer the question reliably is that the question is not well formed. This is a basic starting principle of evidence based medicine: to get a clear answer you need to …