COMMENT


NHS Evidence has had a huge impact since its launch in 2009, and its chief operating officer Dr Gillian Leng thinks that will only increase with the advent of clinical commissioning and new technologies.


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HS Evidence has a number of func- tions, but two of the key ones are act- ing as a simple-to-use portal to the latest research on virtually any clinical or wider healthcare issue, and accrediting the work of the very best guidance providers to en- sure it is seen as widely as possible by peo- ple who know they can trust it.


By helping clinicians make more evidence- based decisions, it acts as both a specific tool, and a wider philosophy about how the NHS should operate.


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When NHE spoke to Dr Gillian Leng, chief operating officer of NHS Evidence and dep- uty chief executive at its parent body, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), we asked how embed- ded in the NHS it has become, and how far there is still to go.


She said: “The philosophy behind NHS Evidence is providing easy access to evi- dence-based resources: that philosophy is still there. I don’t think the strive to use evidence and evidence-based resources is


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