Latest news and views from around the Bennett Institute
This blog, written as part of the HDRUK 2025 Health Data Science Internship Programme, explores how Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and psychological therapies for anxiety disorders and depression are captured in primary care data in England.
We’re excited to open registration and submissions of ideas for the 2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium, a two-day event that brings together everyone working with NHS medicines data.
This newsletter contains all the latest updates from OpenPrescribing
A look at how to run a multi-product analysis on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
How to choose the most appropriate quantity type for custom analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
A look at how to use the summary tables produced in custom analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
In this guest blog James Galloway a Professor of Rheumatology and an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist in South London, at King’s College London describes how his team used OpenPrescribing to reduce unsafe methotrexate prescribing and shares his thoughts on improving quality of care may deliver most improvements for the populations health.
We are looking for people to be part of a new Experience-led Public Advisory Group that will meet regularly to advise and guide the development phases of the OpenSAFELY-Talking Therapies programme.
How you can run custom analyses of variation in medicines issuing across NHS trusts, ICB, region and nationally.
A summary of our research letter highlighting continuing co-proxamol use, published in the British Journal of General Practice
Come and work with us! We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team.
A national medicines usage analysis for lithium in primary and secondary care in England
We’ve launched a new OpenPrescribing Hospitals ‘low value prescribing’ measure for lidocaine plasters.
Come and work with us! We are hiring a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Manager to involve the public in advancing mental health research.
This blog post shares the project I worked on during my summer internship at the Bennett Institute as part of the HDR UK Health Data Science programme. My project explored how ehrQL, is being used across OpenSAFELY repositories. I analysed 301 codefiles from 65 Repositories under the OpenSafely org. and was able to identified which features researchers rely on most, which are less common, and where improvements or additional support could be valuable.
Special edition OpenPrescribing newsletter introducing our new tool, OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
We’re launching the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing to celebrate the best user-led projects using OpenPrescribing. Enter by sharing your work online and sending us the link — all kinds of entries welcome, from prescribing insights to data science deep dives.
We are starting a UKRI-funded project on improving code sharing and want your help!
