In this month’s Talk Evidence, Helen Macdonald, Juan Franco and Joseph Ross are back to talk us through some of the latest research,

They’ll talk about pay-for-perfomance schemes, and whether the data they routinely collect is measuring outcomes or tickboxes. They’ll also talk about a new analysis published on bmj.com which suggests ways in which that data could be better.

We’re also by Huseyin Naci, associate professor of health policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, who will tell us about proposed changes to drug regulation in the UK - and we discuss research which has linked speedier regulatory approval to more adverse advents in post marketing studies.

Finally, we talk about point of care apps. The availability of medical information in the clinic has changed practice, but how good is that information? We hear about research which has evaluated those point of care apps (including BMJ’s Best Practice app) and rates them against different criteria.

Reading list

Estimated impact from the withdrawal of primary care financial incentives on selected indicators of quality of care in Scotland https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj-2022-072098How can we improve the quality of data collected in general practice?https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj-2022-071950#

UK to give “near automatic sign off” for treatments approved by “trusted” regulatorshttps://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p633

Smartphone apps for point-of-care information summaries

https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2023/03/14/bmjebm-2022-112146