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Optimising Antibiotic Use in Primary Care
In this guest blog, Dr Christianne Micallef explains how she uses OpenPrescribing in her role as an antimicrobial stewardship lead pharmacist.
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Latest news and views from around the Bennett Institute
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals Product Lookup
A look at the new Product Lookup feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
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Calculating Defined Daily Dose quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
What is a Defined Daily Dose, how can they calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why are they useful?
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Classifying and measuring medicines usage with the ATC/DDD system
How the ATC can be used to classify medications and how DDs can be used to measure their usage.
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OpenSAFELY and the Co-produced Development of the Digital Critical Friend (DCF) Public Advisory Group model
The journey of public involvement in OpenSAFELY. The OpenSAFELY Digital Critical Friend group, from conception to becoming foundational for OpenSAFELY, is a testament to the power of effective public involvement in digital health.
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OpenSAFELY at the National Patient Data Day in Leeds
On the 24th June 2025, OpenSAFELY had the privilege of running a booth at the National Patient Data Day in Leeds!
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Announcing the 2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium
The Bennett Institute is hosting two days of talks and workshops on medicines, NHS data, and open research.
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Calculating ingredient quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
What is ingredient quantity, how can it be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why is it useful?
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OpenFormulary: ahead of its time
In 2019, we pitched a national tool to track local formularies. Now the NHS is doing just that! We’re sharing our plans and advice to help it succeed.
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals Meets the Public
Brian MacKenna demonstrated OpenPrescribing Hospitals at the 2025 Clinical Pharmacy Congress last month. Here’s his thoughts on how it went.
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Calculating unit dose quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
What are unit doses, how can they be calculated from the quantity reported in the Secondary Care Medicines Data, and why are they useful?
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Discussing the future of strategic medicines optimisation
A summary of our discussion with NHS leaders on how Medicines Optimisation teams can leverage data science to enhance their strategic capability.
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OpenSAFELY Schools: a new collaboration with education professionals
We’re bringing OpenSAFELY to education data - see the new OpenSAFELY Schools website to stay up to date!
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We're launching new community events
Office hours, coding meetups and more! Come and talk to other OpenSAFELY users.
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Measuring quantity in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
A look at how quantity is measured in the Secondary Care Medicines Data
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Introducing ‘diabetes-algo’ - A reusable action for OpenSAFELY users
Together with collaborators in Bristol and at the Bennett Institute, we created a reusable action called ‘diabetes-algo’. Here is what it does.
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Recent updates to OpenCodelists
Our tech team has been making improvements to OpenCodelists! What’s new?
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Privacy-first research with OpenSAFELY: A video interview for GOTO Unscripted
In January 2025, Eli (our Research Software Advocate) sat down for an interview chat with Hannes Lowette and discussed all things OpenSAFELY.