Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Improving newborn screening

Using patient data to better screen for, and look after, newborn babies with congenital hypothyroidism.
- Individual care
- Diagnosis
Understanding the needs of people with cancer

Assessing the concerns of people with cancer using an electronic tool
- Individual care
- Planning
Getting people with COPD more involved in their own healthcare

Using data to support people to manage their COPD
- Individual care
- Planning
Planning services for people living with and beyond cancer

Using patient data to look at what happens to someone after receiving a cancer diagnosis
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Treating rare genetic diseases

Linking rare disease data internationally to improve care and research
- Individual care
- Understanding disease
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
Whooping cough vaccination during pregnancy

Evaluating the safety of vaccinating pregnant women against whooping cough
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
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