Policy-based evidence

Dara Gantly asks where the evidence-based policy is when it comes to health reform. It is the department’s view that this would be an unworkable construct.” It would be hard to find a more succinct put-down to Government-led reform of the health service — and this from the Department of Health itself. Much has been written about the infamous briefing notes for Minister for Health Dr Leo Varadkar on the structural reform programme, which, as I think I have mentioned before, landed like a grenade thrown from a department more famous for its landmines. As such, I’ll leave the background…