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Since the late 1990s, a narrative of evidence-based decision-making or evidence-based practices has increasingly guided the modernisation and improvement of UK health and care services. Rather than decisions being based on the conventions of professional practice or the ideologies of government, the expectation is that decisions from macro policy-making through to micro service delivery should be based on the best available evidence of ‘what works’.
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Vickers, R., Roe, B., Overton, C. (2020). Tensions Between Technocracy, Scientific Knowledge and Co-production in Collaborative Health and Care Networks. In: Bevir, M., Waring, J. (eds) Decentring Health and Care Networks. Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40889-3_9
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