Data and Connectivity Projects
Projects funded and supported by the Data and Connectivity Programme.
Data & Connectivity NCS, Alan Turing Institute and UKRI Advanced Data Analytics Funding Call
In November 2021 the COVID-19 Data and Connectivity National Core Study, partnered with the Alan Turing Institute and UKRI, to award nine new studies a total of £2m to answer priority research questions that will improve understanding of the pandemic and inform the continued policy response.
Using medicines data to understand the effects of COVID – 19 on clinical care.
DaC-VaP-2: The impact of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy, children and young people, and vulnerable groups
Improving methods in health technology to reduce inequalities, particularly ethnicity bias, using COVID-19 as an example.
The impact of previous exposure to COVID-19 and the safety of COVID-19 vaccination for fertility and...
Over time, will changes in the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus result in a decrease in...
Do children and young people need extra follow up care after having SARS-CoV-2 infection?
Are people with chronic lung diseases at a higher risk of cardiovascular complications after having COVID-19...
Using artificial intelligence as an aid to predict the risk of hospital readmission in patients with...
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health of individuals with Long Term Conditions
Data and Connectivity NCS, Office for National Statistics and UKRI Rapid Funding Call
In December 2021 the Data & Connectivity NCS with the Office for National Statistics and UKRI led a rapid funding call for projects to research to use and enrich the National Core Study data and infrastructure to address priority COVID-19 relevant research to inform COVID-19 policy response.
Characterise and quantify the biological, social and environmental drivers of medium-term health outcomes following infection with...
Remote-by-Default Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: addressing the challenges of a radical new service model
Enhancing the Utilisation of COVID-19 Testing in Schools Studies: The Joint Analysis of the ONS COVID-19...
CovPall-Connect. Evaluation of how palliative and end of life care teams have responded to COVID-19: Connecting...
How can healthcare data be connected with wastewater surveillance of COVID-19 in a privacy-preserving fashion to...
What are the relative contributions of different exposures and settings to COVID-19 community transmission? Analysis of...
Ethnicity and COVID-19: investigating the determinants of excess risk
Uptake and comparative safety of new COVID-19 vaccines by age, sex, region, ethnicity, comorbidities, medication, deprivation,...
How is COVID-19 impacting women and men’s working lives in the UK?
Economic scarring from the COVID-19 induced crisis: monitoring inequality in economic and education outcomes
Can we enable harmonised, near real-time, data on pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccines using routinely collected linked...
Is exposure to airborne fine and ultrafine particulate matter a determining factor in COVID-19 infection and...
NIHR/HDR UK Winter Pressures Rapid Funding Call
In December 2022 Health Data Research UK launched a rapid call for 3-month projects, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), to address prioritised research questions to rapidly inform the policy and operational response to health and care compound winter pressures.
Early and safe identification of the right bed for the right patient on exiting an Emergency...
Machine learning to forecast the peak and magnitude of winter healthcare pressures due to respiratory syncytial...
Improving patient flows through acute medical departments through better patient selection for Same Day Emergency Care
Using rare disease phenotype models to identify people at risk of COVID-19 related adverse outcome
Understanding demand for emergency care using regional routine data from emergency department and acute hospital admissions
Which combinations of Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC) are associated with the greatest risk of hospital admission...
Improving characterisation, prediction and intervention for COVID- and influenza- related morbidity and mortality
DS4SmartDischarge: Data Science Informing Complex Discharge Winter Policy
Describing, characterising and predicting winter respiratory accident and emergency attendances, hospital and intensive care unit admissions...
Predicting Hospital Length of Stay in Acute Respiratory Infections Patients (PHLOSARIP)
DIAPHRAM Data Intensive Action on Winter Pressures through Healthcare Resourcing and Access in Cheshire & Merseyside...
Identifying groups at high risk of hospitalisation and death during the winter
Comparison of risk factors for hospitalisations and death from winter infections
Data science for winter pressures in primary care in the context of COVID-19 recovery: using data...
Using AI to understand how preventative interventions can improve the health of children in the UK...
SIREN Winter Pressure Study
Examining the DNA of the COVID-19 virus to find ways to tackle it (COG-UK project)
CO-CONNECT
EAVE II: Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19
Regional Data Projects
Addressing the detailed and near-real time hospital admissions information gap in the UK health data research ecosystem.