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Thank you, George
Thanks to George Davey Smith for his inspiring visit to the Bennett Institute.
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Who are you? An analysis of our OpenPrescribing users
We’ve analysed what we know about our OpenPrescribing user base. Here’s some information obout how many of you there are, what you all look at, and which organisations have signed up to our alerts.
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ECHO – A new OpenSAFELY study on COVID-19 vaccines
We’ve launched a new project to understand who received which COVID-19 booster shots, and when, and the impacts of this on health outcomes.
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OpenSAFELY Symposium 2024: there's still time to sign up
It’s not too late to register for our OpenSAFELY Symposium, which is happening in London on 25/26 November.
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Changes to Direct Oral Anticoagulant (DOAC) measure
We’ve updated the DOAC measure following changes to the NHS England commissioning guidance.
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Exciting new developments with hospital medicines data
We briefly summarise all the recent big and exciting developments in hospital medicines data.
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OpenSAFELY for retail data? Every little helps
Someone on the radio was musing about using retail data for health - we have some thoughts on that.
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Come along to our guest lectures by George Davey Smith
George is visiting the Bennett Institute on 30 September, to give two guest lectures
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Recent paper outputs from the OpenSAFELY Community
In the past 6 months we’ve been very productive at OpenSAFELY publishing 21 peer-reviewed papers on a variety of topics.
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The safety of antivirals and neutralising monoclonal antibodies used in prehospital treatment of Covid-19
In this guest blog, Katie Bechman describes the proof-of-principle pharmacovigilance study she conducted with the help of her team from King’s College London, which used OpenSAFELY to examine the safety of sotrovimab, paxlovid and molnupiravir in prehospital treatment of Covid-19.
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Openprescribing Summer 2024 Newsletter
This newsletter contains all the latest updates from OpenPrescribing
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Changes to how we estimate the financial impact of Price Concessions on the NHS
We’ve been producing estimates on the impact of Price Concessions since 2017. In this blog we describe the changes we’re making in how we estimate the costs.
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Sign up for our free OpenPrescribing webinars
We’re setting up webinars for different groups to show how to use OpenPrescribing effectively. Each session will cover the basics and tips for getting the most out of it.
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Join us for our OpenSAFELY Community Symposium!
Two days of talks and workshops on research, data infrastructure, and open science.
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You can't always get what you want - why medicines don't always show up on OpenPrescribing
We describe the reasons why people sometimes find a medicine on OpenPrescribing.
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Sometimes, the work is getting to know the people you work with
Notes from the Bennett Institue Team Retreat.
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Recording technical decisions using ADRs
The Research Experience team explain how they’ve been recording decisions
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We won an MRC award for open science
Most of the time, we like to keep things fairly formal on this blog - but if you’ll forgive us a small indulgence, today we’re going to blow our own trumpet a little.
A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Rose Higgins and I went to an event in London where this Institute was awarded the Open Science Impact award, as part of the MRC Impact Prize.
We were, needless to say, over the moon about it. The whole team celebrated on Slack with a long list of appropriate emojis.