Member

On the wards, if we had concerns about the competence of a clinician, we suspended them from service first and investigated later. It was a neutral, not a punitive, act to the clinician, because we were protecting children and that was paramount. When small numbers of children died tragically as a result of nut allergies, we did not wait for RCTs, we transformed catering in schools and set up emergency protocols. Yet far more children are being harmed by social media and still we delay. You do not need an RCT to tell you that punching someone on the nose every day hurts and removing the aggressor provides dramatic relief. The phrase “evidence-based” is used very loosely in this Chamber, where I think it means hearing from somebody else, not the person whose views you did not like.