Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Evidence Based Research (15 Dec 2004) The government has been strongly committed to evidence-based policy and practice. It wants to use evidence of what works to inform and drive ambitious and innovative social programmes. But how is evidence-based research used? Is policy based on evidence or informed by it? Laurie Taylor looks at these issues with Anna Coote, director, Health Policy at the King's Fund and co-author of a report Finding Out What Works and Dr Geoff Mulgan, former director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and currently director of the Institute of Community Studies. Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed_20041215.shtml   28.59    (Thinking Allowed)   Read 187 more articles from BBC Radio 4 sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Mobile multimedia slow to catch on     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy