Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Treating mental health and substance abuse

Using GP data to estimate the number of people with mental health and substance abuse problems
- Planning
Improving treatment of teenage anxiety and depression

Analysing trends in prescriptions to teenagers experiencing mental health problems
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
A better understanding of mental illness

Linking data to improve treatment and prevention of mental illness
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
Improving treatments for COPD

Real-time monitoring of a new treatment for COPD in Salford
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
Screening for bowel cancer

Using patient data to demonstrate the efficacy of bowel cancer screening
- Individual care
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy