Latest news and views from around the Bennett Institute
A whistlestop tour of the whole history of our group, from OpenPrescribing via TrialsTracker to OpenSAFELY and on through Open Science, policy work, and more
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped many aspects of healthcare, including how antibiotics are prescribed in primary care settings. In this guest blog, Professor Diane Ashiru-Oredope lead pharmacist for antimicrobial resistance at UK Health Security Agency and our own Brian MacKenna, share some insights on repeat antibiotic prescribing and the link to health inequalities from a recent UK Health Security Agency analysis using OpenSAFELY.
A common question asked of the Bennett Institute is ‘have you got a tool to map BNF codes to dm+d codes?’ We’ve created one to download
We’ve been busy creating new measures for OpenPrescribing.net, and reviewing ones which aren’t needed any more.
We’ve been busy doing housekeeping on OpenPrescribing.net measures. Here’s a summary of the main changes.
We are delighted to share the announcement from NHS England and Department of Health and Social Care below, setting out the future of OpenSAFELY.
In this guest blog, Bang Zheng and Laurie Tomlinson from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine describe some of their lastest work on the comparative effectiveness and safety of currently recommended COVID-19 therapeutics in the community settings.
We have just advertised an exciting and unusual new job. An exciting fellowship based at Jesus College, and working with our amazing team.
OpenPrescribing Autumn 2023 Newsletter.
In this guest blog, Mark Russell describes the research that he has undertaken with the help of his team from King’s College London using OpenSAFELY.
Xiaomin Zhong, Ya-Ting Yang, Dr Ali Fahmi, Dr Victoria Palin and Professor Tjeerd Van Staa from Manchester University have been using OpenSAFELY for analyses focused on the impact of COVID-19 on antimicrobial resistance since 2021. In this guest blog they describe some of their recent papers that have been published in peer review journals.
In this blog, we describe how OpenPrescribing tools helped identify and investigate a sudden £450k per month increase in NHS expenditure
In this blog post Millie Green shares some of the findings from a federated analysis carried out using OpenSAFELY.
In this blog we explain what codelists are, how they are constructed and review existing literature on construction processes.
Why did we create a new query language?
The OpenSAFELY Collaborative has won a prestigious CogX Award for the Best Innovation in Open Source Technology
In this blog we describe how to use and access the NHS England Medicines Optimisation Oppurtunitites dashboard on OpenPrescribing
In this blog, we describe the development of a set of key measures used to monitor the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care as part of the OpenSAFELY Service Restoration Observatory (SRO). The results from this work have now been published in eLife.
