Seb Bacon
Chief Technical Officer
Seb Bacon is a manager, analyst, and programmer with a lifelong interest in “civic tech”. He is responsible for all the the software-related outputs of the Bennett Institute. Prior to the Bennett Institute, he was CTO at OpenCorporates, creating the largest open database of corporate data in the world. Elsewhere, he has been responsible for the design and deployment of the international Freedom of Information software, Alaveteli; and was founder of Democracy Club, an organisation dedicated to transparency in the operation of UK elections.
Papers by Seb Bacon
Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY: population based, retrospective cohort study of 57 million patients using federated analytics
Data-Driven Identification of Unusual Prescribing Behavior: Analysis and Use of an Interactive Data Tool Using 6 Months of Primary Care Data From 6500 Practices in England
Impact of Electronic Health Record Interface Design on Unsafe Prescribing of Ciclosporin, Tacrolimus, and Diltiazem: Cohort Study in English National Health Service Primary Care
Suboptimal prescribing behaviour associated with clinical software design features: a retrospective cohort study in English NHS primary care
Trends and variation in unsafe prescribing of methotrexate: a cohort study in English NHS primary care.
Compliance with legal requirement to report clinical trial results on ClinicalTrials.gov: a cohort study
Barriers to Working With National Health Service England's Open Data
[PRE-PRINT] FDAAA TrialsTracker: A live informatics tool to monitor compliance with FDA requirements to report clinical trial results
Is Use of Homeopathy Associated With Poor Prescribing in English Primary Care? A Cross-Sectional Study
Measuring the Impact of an Open Web-Based Prescribing Data Analysis Service on Clinical Practice: Cohort Study on NHS England Data
Opioid prescribing trends and geographical variation in England, 1998–2018: a retrospective database study
Six months on – NHS England needs to focus on dissemination, implementation and audit of its Low-Priority Initiative
Compliance with requirement to report results on the EU Clinical Trials Register: cohort study and web resource.
Detecting Change in Comparison to Peers in NHS Prescribing Data: a Novel Application of Cumulative Sum Methodology
Trends and variation in prescribing of low-priority treatments identified by NHS England: a cross-sectional study and interactive data tool in English primary care
Time trends and geographical variation in prescribing of drugs for diabetes in England from 1998 to 2017
Trends, geographical variation and factors associated with prescribing of gluten-free foods in English primary care: a cross-sectional study
New mechanism to identify cost savings in English NHS prescribing: minimising 'price per unit', a cross-sectional study
Blogs by Seb Bacon
OpenPathology: Issues with reference ranges — Part 3
OpenPathology: Issues with reference ranges — Part 2
OpenPathology: Issues with reference ranges — Part 1
Validating pathology data against known shifts in clinical practice
Dispensing data shows huge variation in Out of Pocket Expenses
What is a Dormant GP practice, and why are they prescribing?
