Helen McCarthy
Researcher
Helen joined Demos in September 2002 as a researcher.Her research interests are in the area of gender and race equality, community development, and public services reform. She is co-author of Inside Out: Rethinking Inclusive Communities (February 2003) and London Calling: how mobile technologies will transform the capital (October 2003). She is currently managing a new project on social inclusion in partnership with the WRVS.Helen is co-founder of Thinkingwomen, a...
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- It's all in the Mindlines This article in the BMJ from a few weeks ago (please don't ask me why I'm reading the BMJ) suggests that primary care clinicians (ie GPs and practice nurses) rarely explicitly or directly access and use evidence from research to inform their practice, relying instead on so-called 'mindlines' - collectively reinforced, internalised, tacit guidelines derived from interactions with colleagues, patients, pharmaceutical reps, opinion-formers and so forth and morphing over time. Word is, if you want... from : helenmccarthy 16th November 2004