Posts by PopDataSci

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified efforts to soften the barriers to bringing together multi-national, multi-institutional health data for healthcare research. These barriers include variations in governance and regulatory frameworks, data recording standards and data quality, and interoperability challenges between systems. COVID-19 has accelerated a movement within the research and scientific community to move beyond the…

A major new collaborative study involving Population Data Science researchers, published in The Lancet Public Health, provides new insights that could improve the lives of the growing number of individuals living with two or more chronic health conditions. Due to increasing life expectancy and improved survival from acute conditions, the number of people living with…

New statistics published on infants in care proceedings today reveal that the number of cases has continued to grow in England and Wales in recent years. Statistics also show that in most cases involving newborn babies, parents are given very little formal notice that care proceedings have been issued and the case is to be…