Dr John Burke, AXA Health Director of Medical Policy, writes: 

• Patients deserve safe, effective treatment.
• At AXA Health, we believe we should only fund treatments supported by evidence which demonstrates their safety and effectiveness.
• To help us make appropriate funding decisions we’ve created a Patient Safety Tool.
• This is a framework showing how we evaluate evidence-based treatment, so we can be transparent in our decision-making and in our conversations with you.
• But to ensure patient safety and effective treatment we also need engagement from you, the specialists who treat our members.
• Evidence-based medicine is a collaboration that takes the best available research evidence and integrates this with clinical expertise and patient values. 
• Your voice is therefore valuable to us.
• If you feel that our funding approach or our medical policies need to change, we want to hear from you. 
• Take a moment to consider the levels of evidence in our Patient Safety Tool (see navigation table, below).
• Please get in touch via the 'Engage with us' section, below.