Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Understanding the needs of children with vision impairment or blindness

Using patient data to find out how many children have vision impairment or blindness, which then led to better screening.
- Planning
- Policy
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
Using GP records to learn more about the health of carers

Learning more about carers to ensure they get the support they need
- Planning
- Policy
Screening for ovarian cancer

Recruiting women to participate in a trial to assess the costs and benefits of screening
- Diagnosis
- Planning
- Patient safety
- Policy
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