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Research Case Studies

Case study examples of how we have enabled research across the UK.

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Ethnicity and COVID-19: investigating the determinants of excess risk

4 May 2022

Early on in the pandemic, reports started emerging that ethnic minority groups were at greater risk of COVID-19. This project looked at data from healthcare records and linked it to national...

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The relative contributions of different exposures and settings to COVID-19 community transmission

4 May 2022

Analysis of community cohort studies linked to national testing data to understand how COVID-19 spreads at home, work, school and other public places and if this is affected by age, ethnic...

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How COVID-19 has impacted women and men’s working lives in the UK

4 May 2022

The pandemic changed the way we work. This project looked to understand how the pandemic impacted the working lives of women and men differently, focusing on job loss, precarious work and...

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Using national data to understand how palliative and end of life care services responded during the Covid-19 pandemic

4 May 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to cause a huge strain on health care services, including palliative care, which aims to control symptoms and reduce suffering when patients cannot be cured. This...

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Enabling harmonised, near real-time, data on pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccines using routinely collected linked national datasets across the UK

4 May 2022

Researchers used national data sets to answer questions at the start of the pandemic about who was being vaccinated, what kind of protection from COVID-19 they offered, and how safe they were on a...

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The role of PPIE in enabling rapid and trustworthy access to regional health data to support COVID-19 vaccine research

10 February 2022

We invited members of the public to participate in a workshop to understand public perspectives in making regional, linked health data available for research use, to support vaccine safety...

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Combining data to identify ethnic COVID-19 inequalities

31 January 2022

Just a few weeks into the first COVID-19 wave in the UK, reports identified a higher risk of deaths among ethnic minorities. The creation of the Public Health Research Database (PHRD) – a...

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One Wales: how data assets from the National Core Studies have informed the Welsh Government’s pandemic response.

20 January 2022

HDR UK, data custodians and government came together at the start of the pandemic as a collaborative 'One Wales' team to develop an agile approach to data analysis and enable vital insights to be...

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How unlocking health data shaped the COVID-19 vaccine rollout

6 October 2021

In December 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines against COVID-19 were approved for use in the UK. While these vaccines had been thoroughly tested in clinical trials involving...

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