Population Data Science at Swansea University Medical School is delighted to announce its 13th Centre of Excellence – DATA-CAN – The Health Data Research Hub for Cancer. DATA-CAN is a UK-wide partnership which aims to improve care and outcomes for people with cancer by making high quality health data more accessible in a secure and…
Researchers have examined whether sex and depression might influence how effectively blood lipids are treated in high-risk heart disease patients. Lipids are blood fats that, amongst other substances, include cholesterol and triglycerides. They looked at whether lipid levels were checked and if so whether guideline target levels for lipids were achieved through the prism of…
Research paper available here in IJPDS Download Infographic New research offers an external and independent assessment of the first QCovid prediction tool used to estimate the risk of a person being hospitalised, or dying from COVID-19. This study was designed to evaluate the validity of the original QCovid algorithm for COVID-19-related deaths in the Welsh…
Population Data Science at Swansea University and its component teams and groups have an important role in supporting and training the next generation of researchers and data scientists and building the workforce capacity for future research success in this field. We work closely between our Centre’s of Excellence and other leaders such as Administrative Data…
Background to National Core Studies In response to the COVID-19 emergency, The UK Government swiftly established the National Core Studies (NCS) initiative in Summer 2020 to tackle the unique combination of health risks posed by the pandemic. In a letter to key strategic delivery partners sent by the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, experts…
Research paper is available here Read more in Plain English here Data and Connectivity: COVID-19 Vaccines group Pharmacovigilance (DaC-VaP) Download infographic here In one of the largest studies of its kind, new research followed nearly 83,000 health care workers in Wales, from 7th December 2020 to 30th September 2021, following first and second doses for…
Last month, Health Data Research (HDR) UK, in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute, announced nine successful applications following a £2m UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding call to support UK Government’s National Core Study (NCS) programme. Nine projects were funded, with five of those requesting to use the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank,…
Health Data Research (HDR) UK recently launched the HDR UK Phenotype Library; a new resource supporting the sharing of electronic phenotypes (definitions of how health data can be used to measure real-world concepts relevant to research and clinical care). HDR UK is the national institute for health data science that unites the UK’s health data to…
‘Fifteen years is a long time in the world of data’ Our 15 Year Anniversary Review maps the journey of Population Data Science since 2006 to the present day at the forefront of the increasingly important field of Population Data Science – the science of data about people. The review charts our evolution and showcases…
Health and Care Research Wales recently announced £6.5m investment in new research projects across Wales, as part of their 2020-21 funding, designed to ‘fund high-quality research that addresses different research needs across Wales’. Many of these new research projects will use the SAIL Databank Trusted Research Environment (TRE) to address their research questions. Containing billions…
