Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Extending the UK flu vaccination programme

Using surveillance data to justify vaccinating children against flu
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
Demonstrating the safety of a treatment for heart failure

Analysing a potential link between angiotensin receptor blockers and cancer
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
Studying the health of a million women

Studying population health through patient data
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
Using genetics for healthcare and research

The 100,000 Genomes Project links genetic with health data to investigate disease
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
How does lifestyle affect health?

Using patient data to understand the impact of diet on health
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
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
Are flu vaccines effective?

Using GP data to evaluate the effectiveness of flu vaccination
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Identifying public health risks

Monitoring data to identify emerging risks, such as epidemics
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Disproving the link between the MMR vaccine and autism

Conclusively demonstrating that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism
- Individual care
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
Screening for bowel cancer

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