OpenSAFELY @OpenSAFELY
OpenSAFELY is a secure analytics platform for NHS electronic health records. Team from @BennettOxford & @LSHTM opensafely.org Oxford, England Joined May 2020-
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In 2020 me + @brianmackenna published a detailed paper in @bmj_latest describing how hospital medicines data in England was largely impossible to access for public good. Thousands of you engaged! x.com/bengoldacre/st… What happened next? BLOG! + 🧵 bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/e…
In 2020 me + @brianmackenna published a detailed paper in @bmj_latest describing how hospital medicines data in England was largely impossible to access for public good. Thousands of you engaged! x.com/bengoldacre/st… What happened next? BLOG! + 🧵 bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/e…
OpenSAFELY for retail data? Nice mention for our work on @BBCr4today from @HenryDimbleby yesterday. We built @OpenSAFELY: the new, super-secure platform for the NHS for health data. Can you use our approach - just enough access - on retail data? Yes! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/o…
New study from @BennettOxford using @OpenSAFELY finds lockdowns didn't significantly change opioid prescribing, but disparities in care persist. This near real-time data monitoring is vital for the NHS to make opioid use safer. @anschaf @TheLancetPH ow.ly/surn50SqFns
Changes in #opioid prescribing during the #COVID-19 pandemic in England: an interrupted time-series analysis in the #OpenSAFELY-TTP cohort thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…
EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DATA SCIENTISTS WE ARE HIRING Come work building and using @OpenSAFELY @openprescribing Open code and more bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/r…
DOACs at extremes of bodyweight. Ever wondered how many patients over <50kg & >120kg are prescribed DOACs IRL🧮🤔? The fantastic @PrescQIPP team used @OpenSAFELY to report DOACs💊monitoring & 👩⚕️prescribing pre/post pandemic from 20.5 million GP records! doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.…
How does our magical @OpenSAFELY platform work? Find out on @BBCMoreOrLess ! bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…
EXTRAORDINARY JOB 3 year Oxford college post-doc fellowship at @JesusOxford doing YOUR own research programme in epidemiology, or open science, or data infrastructure, anything aligned to @BennettOxford work on @OpenSAFELY @openprescribing @FDAAAtracker and similar. JOIN US!
We built a lovely tool that turns raw NHS GP records into analysis-ready datasets. How can we trust that it's working properly? By building automated tests around it. Mini thread... bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/12/h…
Work with us!
This was an incredibly tall order, in a very difficult space. You can read about our early days here, featuring incredibly close collaboration alongside @TPP_SystmOne, @LSHTM EHR team, @EMISHealth, @NHSEngland and many more. Great friends and allies all! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2021/05/o…
@NHSEngland to expand use of the OpenSAFELY secure COVID-19 research platform to help find new treatments for major killer conditions. The @OpenSAFELY service was developed in collaboration with @BennettOxford at @OxPrimaryCare, @UniofOxford. . ow.ly/5v6l50Q9rHj
BIG NEWS on @OpenSAFELY from us, @NHSEngland, and @DHSCgovuk I’m delighted to say OpenSAFELY’s future is now secure as NHS England infrastructure, and we will cautiously expand to cover non-COVID research areas. THREAD! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/11/t…
COME AND WORK WITH ME on OpenSAFELY.org and bennett.ox.ac.uk and open science and health data and protecting patients' privacy and MORE! jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-co…
Fab blog by our PhD student, summarising the groups work using the @OpenSAFELY research platform
Fab blog by our PhD student, summarising the groups work using the @OpenSAFELY research platform
Read our latest guest blog from @BillyZhong229 and team, who have been using OpenSAFELY to research the impact of C19 on antimicrobial resistance.
Read our latest guest blog from @BillyZhong229 and team, who have been using OpenSAFELY to research the impact of C19 on antimicrobial resistance.
A new analysis out today with 59 MILLION patients' data using @OpenSAFELY on changes in antipsychotic prescribing during the pandemic. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/26/1/e… How we have been able to safely access this data for research: opensafely.org/about/ bennett.ox.ac.uk/opensafely/
Our latest federated analysis across 59million peoples NHS records is out now! Read the paper - we'll blog more next week!
Our latest federated analysis across 59million peoples NHS records is out now! Read the paper - we'll blog more next week!
Read our latest in #pharmacological treatments: researchers explore whether the #COVID19 pandemic affected #antipsychotic prescribing in at-risk populations 👉 bit.ly/3EHQbjZ
This is the thing I've been working on for what feels approximately like forever, but is finally being used for real in the wild. The hardest and most fun code I've ever written:
This is the thing I've been working on for what feels approximately like forever, but is finally being used for real in the wild. The hardest and most fun code I've ever written:

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