UK Heath Data Research Alliance continues to expand membership
Four new organisations join “The Alliance”, working together to create a unified approach to use of health data across the UK.
Implementing technology well: a critical challenge for enabling better care in a learning health system
At its core, a learning health system is about gathering and learning from patient health data, identifying and co-designing improvements, testing and evaluating those improvements,...
Innovative UK data hub to enable research and innovation to tackle mental illness
Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) have today announced a new Hub to provide innovative data resources for mental health research and innovation. The Hub will...
Impact Commitee Selection: Understanding and responding to COVID-19 in Wales: protocol for a privacy-protecting data platform for enhanced epidemiology and evaluation of interventions
Jane Lyons and colleagues have created a platform using population level cohorts, and other linked data sources, to provide up-to-date insights to the Welsh government.
Impact Committee Selection: Access to routinely collected health data for clinical trials – review of successful data requests to UK registries
HDR UK's Matt Sydes and colleagues have identified several barriers to overcome such that routinely collected health care data can better support randomised clinical trials.
Impact Committee Selection: The value of triage during periods of intense COVID-19 demand – simulation modelling study
Using hospital records, researchers from HDR UK's Better Care South West have provided valuable information for policymakers and care providers on different triage approaches and their outcomes.
What is Health Data Research?
Health data research is a growing area of work and combines maths, statistics and technology to manage and analyse very large amounts of different datasets across our health and care systems. The information we obtain from health data research will enable us to make advances in healthcare.
COVID-19 National Core Studies
The National Core Studies programme is enabling the UK to use health data and research to inform both our near and long-term responses to COVID-19, as well as accelerating progress to establish a world-leading health data and research infrastructure for the future.
Our Work to Help SAGE
HDR UK is working in partnership to support the UK government and the NHS in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to enable rapid health data research into COVID-19 utilising the data assets, skills and expertise that we have across the UK.
Accelerating reproducible science through open science and open code
Find data via our HDR Innovation Gateway
This portal provides a common entry point to discover and request access to UK health datasets.