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No medical justification for the Saatchi bill

4 June Here's a BMJ editorial (31 May print edition) by James Raftery and Chris Newdick about the Saatchi bill. The editorial touches on issues of medical innovation, research and evaluation, medical...

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'Interdependencies' of research funders in the UK

26/8/2014 Here's a report on an important topic: "Exploring the interdependencies of research funders in the UK". It's a report for Cancer Research UK, which funds 35% of the £1+bn that medical...

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James Raftery explores critique of new NICE methods

29/8/2014 Here's an important blog on the BMJ website from James Raftery. It explores a critique, from a distinguished set of authors, of the new methods that NICE is proposing to ask its appraisal...

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Open access, dissemination of research and reducing waste

1/9/2014 There’s an interesting editorial by Paul Glasziou in PLoS Medicine on "The Role of Open Access in Reducing Waste in Medical Research” - Paul argues for reducing waste in the dissemination as...

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JLA: an impressive exercise in research priority setting and in collaborative...

The James Lind Alliance: bringing patients, carers and clinicians together to identify and prioritise the top 10 uncertainties about the effects of treatments that they agree are most important. I...

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A word from the Director of the HTA programme

Click here for the first 'A word from the Director' of the HTA programme, Professor Tom Walley. In it he explains "how we prioritise topics for research and for funding".

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What's new in EBM? 8 modern classics

There’s been a flurry of discussion in journals and social media recently about evidence-based medicine (or evidence based healthcare, practice, decision-making...). The Evidence Live conferences, run...

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How should research be published in the future?

How should ‘medical journals’ look in the future? How should health research be published? How should it be made available to the patients who participate in it, to the public who fund it, to the...

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Overdiagnosis and Choosing Wisely: resources

Overdiagnosis harms people's health and wastes money - for the NHS but also for society and for individuals. (Alternative and related labels: Too Much Medicine, Choosing Wisely.) 2015 Analysis paper in...

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Right evidence, better decisions: blog by Alison Ford

If you have spotted any outputs from the new NIHR Dissemination Centre – our wide-ranging Signals or perhaps our first highlight – you may have wondered why this new centre is needed and how it decides...

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