
OpenSAFELY
@opensafely
OpenSAFELY is a secure analytics platform for NHS electronic health records.
Team from @BennettOxford & @LSHTM
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https://www.opensafely.org/ 06-05-2020 17:42:13
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A new analysis out today with 59 MILLION patients' data using OpenSAFELY on changes in antipsychotic prescribing during the pandemic. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/26/1/e… How we have been able to safely access this data for research: opensafely.org/about/ bennett.ox.ac.uk/opensafely/

Read our latest guest blog from BillyZhong, PhD and team, who have been using OpenSAFELY to research the impact of C19 on antimicrobial resistance.

Fab blog by our PhD student, summarising the groups work using the OpenSAFELY research platform


NHS England to expand use of the OpenSAFELY secure COVID-19 research platform to help find new treatments for major killer conditions. The OpenSAFELY service was developed in collaboration with Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at OxPrimaryCareSci, University of Oxford. . ow.ly/5v6l50Q9rHj

BIG NEWS on OpenSAFELY from us, NHS England, and Department of Health and Social Care I’m delighted to say OpenSAFELY’s future is now secure as NHS England infrastructure, and we will cautiously expand to cover non-COVID research areas. THREAD! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/11/t…

This was an incredibly tall order, in a very difficult space. You can read about our early days here, featuring incredibly close collaboration alongside TPP, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine EHR team, @EMISHealth, NHS England and many more. Great friends and allies all! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2021/05/o…



EXTRAORDINARY JOB 3 year Oxford college post-doc fellowship at Jesus College Oxford doing YOUR own research programme in epidemiology, or open science, or data infrastructure, anything aligned to Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science work on OpenSAFELY OpenPrescribing FDAAA TrialsTracker and similar. JOIN US!

How does our magical OpenSAFELY platform work? Find out on BBC More or Less ! bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

DOACs at extremes of bodyweight. Ever wondered how many patients over <50kg & >120kg are prescribed DOACs IRL🧮🤔? The fantastic PrescQIPP CIC team used OpenSAFELY to report DOACs💊monitoring & 👩⚕️prescribing pre/post pandemic from 20.5 million GP records! doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.…

EPIDEMIOLOGISTS DATA SCIENTISTS WE ARE HIRING Come work building and using OpenSAFELY OpenPrescribing Open code and more bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/r…


New study from Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science using OpenSAFELY finds lockdowns didn't significantly change opioid prescribing, but disparities in care persist. This near real-time data monitoring is vital for the NHS to make opioid use safer. @anschaf The Lancet Public Health ow.ly/surn50SqFns

OpenSAFELY for retail data? Nice mention for our work on BBC Radio 4 Today from Henry Dimbleby yesterday. We built OpenSAFELY: the new, super-secure platform for the NHS for health data. Can you use our approach - just enough access - on retail data? Yes! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/o…
