Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine the deep conceptual underpinnings of trust and communication breakdowns via selected health inquiries into things that go wrong using evolutionary psychology. Design/methodology/approach – This paper explains how this is carried out, and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of accounting on clinical practices. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews existing studies of clinical budgeting; analyses publicly available data on cost‐effectiveness recommendations for the NHS; analyses...