We use health data to ensure that every individual across the UK has access to the latest treatments and technologies through access to clinical trials.
Getting enough people for a clinical trial is critical, as there is a level below which a trial’s results are just not robust enough.
These days a large portion of NHS records are electronic, so we are able to search the database for all patients that could benefit from a particular trial, and source participants from the entire population.
Clinical trials track the long-term health of participants by having consented access to participants’ NHS medical records. This allows for more efficient and longer-term follow-up processes.
We want to provide a system that all clinical triallists can use to identify large numbers of the right trial participants. We also work on new approaches to analyse trial results.
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.
The RECOVERY Trial has been set up in record time to test drugs against COVID-19 and findings thus far have informed policy and saved lives.
A novel, collaborative approach based on making key datasets available has led to significantly enhanced recruitment to PRINCIPLE - an important clinical trial supporting research into potential...
A seconded staff member to NHS Digital is looking at the process of data getting from site records into central administrative datasets. This will determine whether these datasets meet the...
Traditionally clinical trial outcomes are recorded as single reports (often with handcrafted
Narrative descriptions) at face-to-face research clinic visits. Typically, original medical records are...
Conducting data-driven clinical trials that are better, faster and more efficient than ever before, is one of Health Data Research UK’s national priorities. Electronic health records hold the...
Find out about the researchers focused on this priority, operating across our 31 locations.
