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Co-proxamol: not gone yet. What can you do?
A summary of our research letter highlighting continuing co-proxamol use, published in the British Journal of General Practice
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We're hiring researchers to work on OpenSAFELY
Come and work with us! We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team.
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Analysing lithium usage in primary and secondary care
A national medicines usage analysis for lithium in primary and secondary care in England
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Lidocaine plasters measure in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
We’ve launched a new OpenPrescribing Hospitals ‘low value prescribing’ measure for lidocaine plasters.
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Registration Now Open - 2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium!
We’re excited to open registration for the 2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium, a two-day event that brings together everyone working with NHS medicines data.
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We are hiring a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Manager
Come and work with us! We are hiring a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Manager to involve the public in advancing mental health research.
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Understanding ehrQL Feature Usage in OpenSAFELY for Health Research
This blog post shares the project I worked on during my summer internship at the Bennett Institute as part of the HDR UK Health Data Science programme. My project explored how ehrQL, is being used across OpenSAFELY repositories. I analysed 301 codefiles from 65 Repositories under the OpenSafely org. and was able to identified which features researchers rely on most, which are less common, and where improvements or additional support could be valuable.
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals - Special Edition Newsletter
Special edition OpenPrescribing newsletter introducing our new tool, OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing
We’re launching the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing to celebrate the best user-led projects using OpenPrescribing. Enter by sharing your work online and sending us the link — all kinds of entries welcome, from prescribing insights to data science deep dives.
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Help Us Improve Code Sharing in Health Research
We are starting a UKRI-funded project on improving code sharing and want your help!
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You asked: Can we monitor the usage of biosimilars in secondary care using OpenPrescribing Hospitals?
What are biosimilars, why are they of interest and why can we monitor usage with primary care data but not secondary care data?
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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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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.