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Using Health Data

Find out more about ways in which health data is being used by teams across the UK, within our national research priorities.

Our research priorities
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Understanding the causes of disease

We use health data in its multiple forms to understand the causes of disease and discover new targeted treatments, rather than addressing symptoms.

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Clinical trials

We use health data to ensure that every individual across the UK will have access to the latest treatments and technologies through access to clinical trials.

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Improving Public Health

We aim to identify what causes ill-health as well as factors that can improve it, regardless of socioeconomic background, across the UK.

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Better care

We are improving people’s lives by equipping clinicians and patients with the best possible data-led information to help make decisions about care.

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HDR UK event

SAVE THE DATE – Health Data Research UK Summer School 2020

1 September 2020 – 9:00AM

Online

We are delighted to announce the dates for Health Data Research UK’s Summer School, supported by the University of Nottingham between Tuesday 1 and Friday 4 September 2020. This is the second...

Publications and Outputs

Explore HDR UK’s publications that deliver the organisation’s mission to unite the UK’s health data to make discoveries that improve people’s lives.

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BHF Data Science Centre

Improving the cardiovascular health of the nation using the power of large-scale data and advanced analytics across the UK.

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