Case studies | Understand Patient Data

Improving newborn screening

Using patient data to better screen for, and look after, newborn babies with congenital hypothyroidism.
- Individual care
- Diagnosis
Investigating self-harm in young people

Identifying under reporting of self-harm
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
Comparing cancer survival

Understanding why cancer survival varies between countries
- Understanding disease
- Policy
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
Comparing cancer survival rates worldwide

Using cancer registries to examine cancer survival variation between countries
- Understanding disease
- Planning
- Policy
The impact of air pollution on health

Using pan-European data to understand how air pollution affects health
- Understanding disease
- Treatment and prevention
- Policy
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
Investigating trends in diabetes

Understanding why diabetes rates vary between ethnic groups
- Understanding disease
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
- Planning
- Policy
Screening for bowel cancer

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