New research shows that hospital accident and emergency violence prevention programmes are effective in reducing harm, costs to the NHS and improve emergency care. A series of research studies, led by Cardiff University, University of York, and Swansea University, looked at the effectiveness of hospital violence intervention programmes in Wales – known as Violence Prevention…
A new study led by the HDR UK Wales team at Swansea University has mapped international evidence on the outcomes of children who grow up in out-of-home care. Drawing on 77 reviews published between January 2013 and July 2024, research funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) shows which areas of…
Yesterday’s Financial Times featured the MAGENTA project in an article on how rising global temperatures are affecting pregnancy outcomes worldwide. FT Global Health Editor, Sarah Neville, visited Swansea at the end of the summer to witness the team’s work firsthand. She met participant Sammie Bond, Research Midwife Sophie Barry-Richards, and Co-Investigator Professor Cathy Thornton. Photo…
SAIL Databank News. Published 13/10/2025 A major new study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe provides crucial insights into how people in Wales use health and care services in the last year of life. The research was led by a multidisciplinary team from Population Data Science, Swansea University, in collaboration with Cardiff University, Bristol University, and the Welsh National…
The Population Data Science (PDS) team at Swansea University has been recognised with two prestigious accolades at the HDR UK Annual Awards, celebrating their outstanding achievements in health data science and collaborative research. Susannah Boddie Award for Impact of the Year Members of the PDS team were part of the CVD-COVID-UK / COVID-IMPACT Consortium, which…
Research into the life-shortening neurological condition motor neurone disease (MND) will receive a major boost through the formation of a new data catalyst led by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and Dementia Platforms UK (DPUK). The MND Research Data Catalyst sits within the DPUK Data Portal as a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) Hub. SeRP…
In this blog post, Hatem Mona, Data Scientist/Psychiatry Epidemiologist at Population Psychiatry, Suicide and Informatics (PPSI), Swansea University and DATAMIND, shares with us his inspirational journey into research. What did you do before joining PPSI at Swansea University? Before working at Swansea University, I completed a master’s degree in Population Health from UCL, London, with…
Linking police and healthcare data has revealed that highly vulnerable individuals are detectable before the involvement of the police. Now a new study by Swansea University researchers says data sharing and linkage could help reduce police callouts and future emergency medical admissions. This study, published in The Lancet, and led by the National Centre for…
A study by Population Data Science at Swansea University has revealed that even though COVID-19 is associated with increased risks of post-infection conditions such as fatigue and embolism- the overall healthcare burden was low, with very few people experiencing adverse outcomes following COVID-19. Published in BMC Medicine, the collaborative study, led by researchers at the…
COVID-19 has led to substantial changes in community pharmacy drug dispensing patterns. Measures for keeping the spread of the COVID-19 virus under control resulted in many face-to-face activities moving to online and telephone consultations unless necessary. Many individuals experienced this change in their routine interaction with clinical services such as blood tests, repeated medication, GP…
