We need to put the evidence to work

Could the current economic crisis be the making of evidence based medicine? Important though the past two decades have been for evolving its concepts, tools, and methods, I wonder if we have been only playing at putting evidence into practice. Perhaps it’s only now, in this harshest of financial climates, that we’ll really have to put the evidence to work

Speaking at the King’s Fund’s annual conference last week, John Appleby, the fund’s chief economist, left no doubt about the harshness of the financial climate or how cold it’s going to get. The King’s Fund and the Institute of Fiscal Studies’ three scenarios for future NHS funding start at “arctic” …