You’re invited to the 2025 Bennett Institute Oxford Medicines Symposium

We are excited to invite you to the 2025 Bennett Institute Oxford Medicines Symposium, taking place on 10-11 December 2025 at Jesus College, Oxford. We hope you can join us all!

The event

This is not just an academic conference. We are the team behind practical tools like OpenPrescribing and OpenSAFELY, and we are bringing together the many different practical communities using data across the NHS and academia.

This includes: medicines optimisation teams who use data to monitor clinical activity and outcomes across the NHS, and work directly with clinicians to drive change; researchers who use data to produce academic papers exploring the benefits and risks of treatments; and technical teams who build the tools and data flows for dashboards and popups.

Sessions on the first day

• An overview of prescribing data sources accessible today, and how they are produced.
• An overview of the many different data tools used by medicines teams.
• Presentations from medicines optimisation teams on how they use data every day for practical quality improvement in the NHS.
• Presentations from academic researchers on how they use data to explore the uptake, safety and effectiveness of medicines.
• A panel on the future of medicines data.

Our keynote lecture is from the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England, David Webb, head of the pharmacy professions in England, and principal advisor on pharmacy and medicines use in the NHS.

Come and talk

We would also love to receive presentations from you! These need not be formal academic talks. We are looking for practical work, done by real teams in the NHS, using data to drive change, in short presentations, using all the tools available including ePACT2, OpenPrescribing, GP data, and more. We are also looking for academic presentations about research work: this includes novel findings or single research projects; but also informative overviews of your work, showcasing how medicines data is used for the wider community. You can propose your short presentation here until 24th October 2025.

The Bennett Prize

At this year’s symposium we will be presenting the first Bennett Institute Prize for outstanding use of data. This year, the prize is for projects using our OpenPrescribing tool (which is celebrating its 10th birthday). Submissions are open until 10th November here.

How to register

Register now on Eventbrite. For more details see our Symposium event page. We look forward to seeing you in December!