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To use evidence to enhance your professional practice, you firstly need to see the need to review, change or develop practice, which requires reflection. Thinking critically to amend practice is a reflective process that requires the ability to critique evidence to make a judgement on the quality, and therefore value of, the evidence before considering how to put any changes into practice. Healthcare practitioners often jump straight to an action plan, taking little time to review or reflect again on whether the implementation of the action plan has enhanced practice through applying the knowledge gained. Core to this reflection are the views of key stakeholders whether that is patients, service users, colleagues, or managers. The reflexive element when engaging in reflection as part of EBP is often overlooked. Being a reflexive practitioner involves an individual considering whether their underlying beliefs and assumptions have been challenged or altered due to the critical engagement with evidence and observations of any change on practice.