Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Extending the UK flu vaccination programme to children

Using surveillance data to demonstrate the benefits of vaccinating children against flu
Equal access to bowel cancer treatments in Yorkshire

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

Using data to ensure the safety of medications
Improving treatment of teenage anxiety and depression

Analysing trends in prescriptions to teenagers experiencing mental health problems
Using data to plan services for people living with and beyond cancer

Using patient data to look at what happens to someone after receiving a cancer diagnosis
Comparing cancer survival rates worldwide

Using cancer registries to examine cancer survival variation between countries
Identifying Covid-19 as a public health risk through data analysis

Monitoring data to identify emerging risks, such as epidemics
Disproving the link between the MMR vaccine and autism

Using data to conclusively disprove ideas that pose risks to public health
Investigating trends in diabetes across ethnic groups

Understanding why diabetes rates vary between ethnic groups
Improving treatments for COPD

Real-time monitoring of a new treatment for COPD in Salford