NICE and the UK National Screening Committee were set up to ensure (at least in part) that decisions about what to fund/not to fund were based on high quality evidence, as free from bias as possible./
This protected patients against non evidence based, net harmful, interventions. It protected taxpayers against wild claims from industry and interventions that were too expensive vs the outcomes they could garner/
Mar 21 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
is it? really? let's think. first of all, the bbc story @Jeremy_Hunt links to doesn't seem to have a link to the data we need to asses this claim. searching brings up the @aberdeenuni press release dated today/ abdn.ac.uk/news/22964/
no secret that primary care is really struggling right now. and I read this bmj.com/content/377/bm…, a woman remembering her GP and the care she received and "That was the last of the real family doctors . They don’t make them like that anymore". well...I think they do/
the joy, the real visceral joy of general practice is human connection, knowing people, them knowing you; makes the job easier, more satisfying, better chances of doing medicine usefully, drawing limits and optimising benefits, we don't need to start at the beginning every time;
