Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Follow up for people discharged from hospital after a heart attack

Linking three datasets to monitor drug adherence outside of hospital
- Understanding disease
Evaluating bowel cancer care in Yorkshire

Using patient data to identify and improve areas of poor practice
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Demonstrating the safety of an anti-obesity medication

Using data to check the safety of orlistat
- Treatment and prevention
Understanding hip fractures

Collecting audit data to monitor and improve the treatment for hip fracture
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
Investigating self-harm in young people

Identifying under reporting of self-harm
- 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
Using genetics for healthcare and research

The 100,000 Genomes Project links genetic with health data to investigate disease
- 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
Improving early cancer diagnosis for Black African women

Using patient data to identify variation in diagnosis of late stage breast cancer
- Understanding disease
- Diagnosis
Prescribing statins to men without a history of heart attacks

Demonstrating the health and cost benefits of statin use
- Individual care
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning