Simon is a senior developer, with a focus on the operation and security of the various Bennett Institute software projects. He has over 15 years experience with developing and operating high traffic web services, with a focus on deployment pipelines and system observability. Within the healthcare domain, he was the initial lead developer for the National Pathology Exchange, and is delighted to be working in the public health arena again. He has a BSc in Computing and a PhD in AI for Clouds from the University of Leeds.
Papers by Simon Davy
- Uptake of service specific codes for the COVID oximetry @Home Pulse Oximetry service: an analysis of 57 million patients' primary care records using OpenSAFELY
- Primary care coding activity related to the use of online consultation systems or remote consulting
- Therapeutics Dataset from COVID-19 Medicine Delivery Units in England
- Consistency, completeness and external validity of ethnicity recording in NHS primary care records: a cohort study in 25 million patients’ records at source using OpenSAFELY
- Incidence and treatment of group A streptococcal infections during covid-19 pandemic and 2022 outbreak
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Antidepressant Prescribing with a focus on people with learning disability and autism
- The impact of COVID-19 on medication reviews in English primary care
- Impact of vaccination on the association of COVID-19 with cardiovascular diseases
- During the COVID-19 pandemic 20 000 prostate cancer diagnoses were missed in England
- Measuring BMI in 22 million patients in England
- OpenSAFELY: a platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research
- Trends in inequalities in avoidable hospitalisations across the COVID-19 pandemic
- Impact of COVID-19 on mental illness in vaccinated and unvaccinated people
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antipsychotic prescribing in individuals with autism, dementia, learning disability, serious mental illness or living in a care home
- Healthcare in England was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic across the pancreatic cancer pathway
- Eleven key measures for monitoring general practice clinical activity during COVID-19
- Patient characteristics associated with clinically coded long COVID: an OpenSAFELY study using electronic health records
- Changes in medication safety indicators in England throughout the covid-19 pandemic using OpenSAFELY
- Challenges in Estimating the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination Using Observational Data
- Changes in COVID-19-related mortality across key demographic and clinical subgroups in England from 2020 to 2022
- Trends, variation, and clinical characteristics of recipients of antiviral drugs and neutralising monoclonal antibodies for covid-19 in community settings
- OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 2
- Comparative effectiveness of sotrovimab and molnupiravir for prevention of severe covid-19 outcomes in patients in the community
- Recording of ‘COVID-19 vaccine declined’
- Waning effectiveness of BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 covid-19 vaccines over six months since second dose
- Comparative effectiveness of ChAdOx1 versus BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccines in Health and Social Care workers in England
- Representativeness of electronic health record platform OpenSAFELY-TPP data compared to the population of England
- Describing the population experiencing COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough following second vaccination in England
- Risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes associated with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and immune modifying therapies
- Safety of COVID-19 vaccination and acute neurological events
- Impact of First UK COVID-19 Lockdown on Hospital Admissions
- Accident and emergency (AE) attendance in England following infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron or Delta
- Rates of serious clinical outcomes in survivors of hospitalisation with COVID-19 in England
- Potentially inappropriate prescribing of DOACs to people with mechanical heart valves
- Mortality among Care Home Residents in England during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic
- OpenSAFELY NHS Service Restoration Observatory 1: primary care clinical activity in England during the first wave of COVID-19
- Trends and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients
- Impact of national guidance on switching anticoagulant therapy during COVID-19 pandemic
- Clinical coding of long COVID in English primary care
- Severity of Severe Acute Respiratory System Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Alpha Variant (B.1.1.7) in England
- Risks of covid-19 hospital admission and death for people with learning disability
- Identifying Care Home Residents in Electronic Health Records
- Case fatality risk of the SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern B.1.1.7