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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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Latest news and views from around the Bennett Institute
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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.
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Custom analyses on OpenPrescribing Hospitals
The new custom analysis feature on OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
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Hiring software developers
We have vacancies for two senior software developers to work on OpenSAFELY and our other products
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Hiring an OpenSAFELY product manager
We’re looking for a product manager to come and work on OpenSAFELY with us.
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Low value medicines in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
How we can use OpenPrescribing Hospitals measures to look at use of low value medicines in hospitals.
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Highlighting variation in hospitals medicines usage
How we highlight variation in hospital medicines usage in OpenPrescribing Hospitals Measures.