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
Extending the UK flu vaccination programme

Using surveillance data to justify vaccinating children against flu
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
Analysing the link between radiotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma and breast cancer

Understanding more about the impact of radiotherapy at a young age
- Treatment and prevention
Learning more about blood cancer

Data from thousands of people is giving new insights into blood cancer
- Understanding disease
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Monitoring joint replacement surgery

Analysing registry data to improve performance and safety
- Treatment and prevention
- Patient safety
Studying the health of a million women

Studying population health through patient data
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
Improving dialysis treatment in the UK

Linking data to analyse kidney patients' treatment
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Assessing a new treatment for severe asthma

Evaluating the safety of a new treatment through real world clinical data
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
- Patient safety
Working out who is at risk of cardiovascular disease

Using data to inform a risks assessment tool for cardiovascular disease
- Individual care
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
Tackling preventable amputations

Improving understanding of preventable, diabetes-related amputations
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning