Case studies | Understand Patient Data

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
Monitoring joint replacement surgery

Analysing registry data to improve performance and safety
Supporting research into rare diseases

Using registry data to search for treatments for rare diseases
Comparing the uptake of emergency operations for heart attack across England

Using registry data to examine rates of emergency coronary intervention across England
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
Assessing a new treatment for severe asthma

Evaluating the safety of a new treatment through real world clinical data
Identifying Covid-19 as a public health risk through data analysis

Monitoring data to identify emerging risks, such as epidemics
The impact of air pollution on health

Using pan-European data to understand how air pollution affects health