Nutritional Therapist Kirsten Chick looks at the development of Evidence Based Medicine, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses.

The last thirty or more years have seen the rapid adoption of evidence based medicine by healthcare systems around the globe. But how close to the spirit of EBM’s original proposition is the interpretation currently in use by our NHS? Kirsten Chick, a highly experienced specialist in Oncology Nutrition reviews the development of EBM and the effect it has had on clinical practice, both within healthcare and her own work supporting people with cancer.