Latest news and views from around the Bennett Institute
The way the Secondary Care Medicines Data is published has recently changed. This is why this is good news for OpenPrescribing Hospitals.
After a bit of a hiatus, the FDAAA TrialsTracker is back with nerdy details about what went wrong and how we fixed it.
A new version of the OpenSAFELY R image with R 4.4.3 and updated libraries is available
This blog explains the major changes we’ve made to how the Price-Per-Unit tool works
How we can make it easier to compare issuing quantities of different products within the Secondary Care Medicines Data by using the dictionary of medicines and devices to find more detailed product information.
A first look at the data within the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset.
We’ve made OpenPrescribing Hospitals platform to all with our first feature. Read more to see how you can access it.
Ben Goldacre on our short term future plans, as published in our booklet, “The past, present and future of OpenSAFELY”
Ben Goldacre reflects on OpenSAFELY’s funding journey to date, as published in our booklet, “The past, present and future of OpenSAFELY”
A deeper dive into what stock control data is and how it impacts the way the SCMD is published
Ben Goldacre describes the collaboration that makes OpenSAFELY possible, as published in our booklet, “The past, present and future of OpenSAFELY”
A brief description of the Secondary Care Medicines Dataset, the primary dataset used in OpenPrescribing Hospitals
A short OpenSAFELY case study from the University of Southampton, as published in our booklet, “The past, present and future of OpenSAFELY”
A short OpenSAFELY case study from the University of Manchester, as published in our booklet, “The past, present and future of OpenSAFELY”
A short OpenSAFELY case study, from the UK Health Security Agency, as published in our booklet, “The past, present and future of OpenSAFELY”
Ben briefly celebrates our paper setting out proposals for the shape and scope of the government’s new National Data Library.
In light of recent press coverage, Bennett boss Ben Goldacre explains what OpenSAFELY is, how it works, and why it matters - in just a few bullet points.
This morning the Today programme on Radio 4 did two great spots on OpenSAFELY.
