For an individual patient, clinically relevant and patient-centred should be one and the same. The patient should see, feel and understand that the aim is to get them as well as possible and keep them as well as possible….. and using their definition of well.

There is a tension between being patient-centred and taking a population approach to health. But…. when people talk ablout clinical decision making or clinically relevant they usually are referring to how an individual patient is managed rather than the decisions that need to be taken about managing services for populations.

Happy for others to disagree!