Profile: André Tomlin

Abstract

[...]he is André Tomlin, 45, information scientist, health blogger, educator, evidence-based practice guru, businessman with a genuine vision of improving the quality of healthcare, and father of three children under 8 years of age. [...]much less irritating than you might have expected. Another mission is in myth busting, with evidence, of potentially harmful treatments; for example, a recent review piece in Mental Elf by Edel McGlanaghy on the subject of the potentially harmful effects of psychological treatment, mainly online cognitive–behavioural therapy for anxiety. 1 We discussed the merits and demerits of ‘trans diagnostic’ approaches to mental healthcare, recently written about in relation to Child and Adolescent mental health by Miranda Wolpert and Peter Fonagy. 2 They have looked at the limitations of diagnosis and evidence-based research, proposing focusing on the person rather than the diagnosis. [...]he goes even further in pointing to the gap between evidence-based medicine and ordinary practitioners, and states ‘we would have most impact if we just implemented what we know now.’