Blog | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

3 Apr 2023

Introduction to the Data Team

Hello, from the Bennett Institute’s Data Team! In this short blog post, we’ll describe our mission, our backgrounds in industry and academia, and what we’re working on now.

21 Mar 2023

An Update on Our Co-piloting Programme: How Have We Grown?

Taking some time to describe the co-piloting programme in numbers, to give an idea of the scale of this programme, who our co-pilots are and who we are working with

14 Mar 2023

Re-running your study, quickly and easily: why automated pipelines matter for research

Better and more efficient health science with reusable pipelines and cross-disciplinary expertise.

14 Mar 2023

‘Safe Outputs’ and Statistical Disclosure Control in OpenSAFELY

Taking a deeper look at the ‘Safe Outputs’ dimension of this framework, and how it is applied in OpenSAFELY.

7 Mar 2023

OpenSAFELY Research Highlights

Here we outline some of the research that has been produced with OpenSAFELY, as well as the features that make it such a great platform for research.

2 Mar 2023

The ‘Five Safes’ Framework and applying it to OpenSAFELY

The Fives Safes framework is a popular framework for designing safe and efficient data access systems that has been adopted by a range of Trusted Research Environments (TREs) across the UK.

21 Feb 2023

OpenSAFELY NHS Service Analytics

On 7th May 2020, the OpenSAFELY Collaborative pre-printed the world’s largest study into factors associated with death from COVID-19, based on an analysis running across the full pseudonymised health records of 40% of the English population.

31 Jan 2023

Generating data on the NHS England Core20PLUS5 inequality groups using OpenSAFELY in GP records

In order to tackle health inequalities NHS England have recently launched the Core20PLUS5 initiative to help local areas identify and reduce inequalities across key areas.

27 Jan 2023

Using electronic health records and open science in the COVID-19 pandemic

We recently presented on behalf of our team (grp-EHR) at an open science workshop, hosted by the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge. This was a great opportunity for us to reflect on our team’s experiences using OpenSAFELY, and more broadly embracing open and team science approaches to our work.