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Two years of the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway
This week we are recognising two years of the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway. Funded by UK Research and Innovation's (UKRI) Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and delivered in partnership...
UK Health Data Research Alliance welcomes three new members
Three leading health organisations, including two NHS foundation trusts and an imaging co-operative, announced today they are joining the UK Health Data Research Alliance to develop best practice...
TREs in the NHS – how health data sharing is saving lives
NHS Digital’s director of research and clinical trials, Michael Chapman, looks at the organisation’s development of a trusted research environment (TRE) in the NHS. He is joined by Health Data...
Professor Cathie Sudlow elected to Academy of Medical Sciences
Huge congratulations to our Associate Director, Professor Cathie Sudlow, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in light of her pioneering work in health data science....
Increased mutations in children can be traced back to mistakes in father’s sperm
Researchers from our Understanding Causes of Disease programme have traced the cause of increased numbers of mutations in children to a higher rate of random mutations in sperm cells of the...
Better use of data needed to tackle NHS backlogs
A major success of the UK’s COVID-19 response has been the use of up-to-date, publicly available data – now this approach must be widened to tackle the indirect and long-term effects of the...
New public dialogue finds people want more proactive transparency about how their data is used in research
DARE UK (Data and Analytics Research Environments UK) has published the findings of a UK-wide public dialogue exploring attitudes towards how sensitive data is handled and used in research.
Vaccination rates lower in Black community compared to other ethnic groups, study shows
COVID-19 vaccination rates are much higher in White and Indian people and lower amongst Black individuals, new research supported by Health Data Research UK has identified.
COVID-19 variant Omicron is usually milder than Delta but also more likely to break through immune protection
New paper from EAVE II team uses linked GP, hospital and lab data to analyse severity of omicron variant and effectiveness of vaccine boosters against symptomatic disease in Scotland