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SHARED DECISION MAKING IS IMPORTANT I have no doubt that the hospital team intended on doing the best for their patient by starting evidence-based treatments and stabilising Joan's clinical condition. I wonder how Joan's story could have been different if clinicians considered the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE's) shared decision- making guidelines[2] with the same regard they gave to the heart failure guidelines? Both Joan and her family understood the immense pressure we're all under, and that careful, patient-centred care takes time. [Extracted from the article]

The editorial discusses the need for the National Health Service (NHS) England to perform of evidence-based practice, while also taking into consideration the personal values of patients, in general practice. It talks about the impact of general practitioners' (GPs) use of big data for prescriptions. It looks at how lack of evidence-based treatment leads to overtreatment and the adverse effects of rigid healthcare policies which are not evidence based.