Latest news and views from around the Bennett Institute
We’ve analysed what we know about our OpenPrescribing user base. Here’s some information obout how many of you there are, what you all look at, and which organisations have signed up to our alerts.
We’ve launched a new project to understand who received which COVID-19 booster shots, and when, and the impacts of this on health outcomes.
It’s not too late to register for our OpenSAFELY Symposium, which is happening in London on 25/26 November.
We’ve updated the DOAC measure following changes to the NHS England commissioning guidance.
We briefly summarise all the recent big and exciting developments in hospital medicines data.
Someone on the radio was musing about using retail data for health - we have some thoughts on that.
George is visiting the Bennett Institute on 30 September, to give two guest lectures
In the past 6 months we’ve been very productive at OpenSAFELY publishing 21 peer-reviewed papers on a variety of topics.
In this guest blog, Katie Bechman describes the proof-of-principle pharmacovigilance study she conducted with the help of her team from King’s College London, which used OpenSAFELY to examine the safety of sotrovimab, paxlovid and molnupiravir in prehospital treatment of Covid-19.
This newsletter contains all the latest updates from OpenPrescribing
We’ve been producing estimates on the impact of Price Concessions since 2017. In this blog we describe the changes we’re making in how we estimate the costs.
We’re setting up webinars for different groups to show how to use OpenPrescribing effectively. Each session will cover the basics and tips for getting the most out of it.
Two days of talks and workshops on research, data infrastructure, and open science.
We describe the reasons why people sometimes find a medicine on OpenPrescribing.
Notes from the Bennett Institue Team Retreat.
The Research Experience team explain how they’ve been recording decisions
Most of the time, we like to keep things fairly formal on this blog - but if you’ll forgive us a small indulgence, today we’re going to blow our own trumpet a little.
A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Rose Higgins and I went to an event in London where this Institute was awarded the Open Science Impact award, as part of the MRC Impact Prize.
We were, needless to say, over the moon about it. The whole team celebrated on Slack with a long list of appropriate emojis.
Spend more time answering your research questions – and less time wrangling your computer – with GitHub Codespaces and the OpenSAFELY development container.
