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Latest news and views from around the Bennett Institute
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What we learned when we took OpenSAFELY from GP data to schools data
OpenSAFELY was built for healthcare. When the National Institute of Teaching approached us about applying the same approach to school data, we were enthusiastic. Here is what we found when we got into the detail.
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Essential infrastructure: how OpenSAFELY revolutionised health data analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic
Covid-19 inquiry finds OpenSAFELY’s data infrastructure essential to UK’s pandemic response.
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"On The Record" - Seb Bacon’s Inaugural Lecture
Come and join Seb for his inaugural lecture as the first-ever Professor of Practice at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
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Hiring a Head of Engineering
We’re looking for someone to lead our delivery teams and we’d love to hear from you
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OpenPrescribing Spring 2026 Newsletter
Latest OpenPrescribing and OpenPrescribing Hospitals updates.
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The Untapped Potential of NHS Talking Therapies Data: reflections during Mental Health Awareness Week
Understanding the role that large-scale mental health data analysis can play in improving the effectiveness of mental health services across England.
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Messy Data to Meaningful Insights: The Importance of Data Checks
We describe how we do data checks of GP data in OpenSAFELY
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Migration Coding in Primary Care From 2011 to 2025 Using the New OpenCodeCounts Tool
We’ve used our new OpenCodeCounts tool to understand the coding of migrants in English primary care.
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Big data and better healthcare: inside the Bennett Institute's NHS data tools
Seb Bacon and Brian MacKenna showed returning graduates how healthcare data tools are developed, and explored the impact of securely analysing large-scale health data.
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A new way to view measures on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
Making searching, comparing and sharing OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures easier.
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ICD-10 to SNOMED CT mapping tool
We’ve created a tool that could help with mapping of codelists from ICD-10 to SNOMED CT.
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Identifying the NHS Trusts within Cancer Alliances
What are Cancer Alliances? How can the NHS trusts that partner with Cancer Alliances be identified?
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Understanding NHS trust types
What types of NHS trusts are there? How can they be identified?
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New OpenPrescribing Hospitals Antibiotics measures
New antibiotic measures launched to support antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals.
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Contemporary Causal Methods Special Interest Group Guest Speaker
In April we will welcome Assoc Prof Nan van Geloven who will give a talk about accounting for treatment in clinical prediction models.
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What Are the Top 10 Most Frequently Recorded Clinical Codes in NHS GP Records
OpenCodeCounts is an open-access, online interactive tool - we use it to find the 10 most used codes across general practice in England.
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An OpenPrescribing prototype for exploring Hospital FP10s
We’ve built a prototype of a tool that looks at hospital prescriptions dispensed in the community. We describe what we’ve built, how we’ve built it, and how you can help us make it better.