News

Patients reviewed our CPRD Trusted Research Environment ‘airlock’ system

We hosted a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) online event on 30 October 2023, with over 20 participants joining from across the UK. As part of our commitment to patients and the Health Research Authority, we continuously seek feedback from patients and the public to help us improve our services.

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CPRD NCRAS data delivery update

CPRD now hold linked National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS) Cancer Registration Tumour and Treatment data in-house. This change is a result of the merger of Public Health England (previous NCRAS data controllers) into NHS England enabling these data to be licensed in the same way as other NHS England data such as Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). Moving forwards, this will allow requests for these data to be processed in the same way as requests for other CPRD linked data, bringing timelines for delivery of NCRAS Tumour and Treatment data in line with other CPRD linked datasets. The impact of this change will be significantly reduced data delivery timelines for researchers requesting linked NCRAS Tumour and Treatment data.  

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CPRD Aurum code browser issue

We have been made aware of a limitation with the CPRD Aurum code browser. 

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Winners of global AI cardio-health challenge announced

The successful five winners of a brand-new challenge from a collaboration of regulators and healthcare organisations in the UK and US have been announced today (10 January 2024).

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Advance notice of updated NHS England Hospital Episodes Statistics and ONS Deaths Linked data

We have been continuing to work with NHS England to successfully secure an update to the CPRD-linked data following changes in the way NHS England, the CPRD's Trusted Third Party for linkage, process and link data for a range of organisations.

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CPRD Single Study Licence users will be first to access the CPRD Trusted Research Environment (TRE)

We can now confirm that the CPRD TRE will go live in April 2024 as previously announced. 

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CPRD Ethnicity Records update and HDR UK webinar

We are pleased to announce the launch of the latest CPRD Ethnicity Record algorithm derived datasets along with the September 2023 releases of CPRD GOLD and CPRD Aurum. The CPRD Ethnicity Record datasets are comprised of a single derived ethnicity category for each patient in CPRD GOLD and CPRD Aurum.

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Lay Member vacancies for CPRD Research Data Governance (RDG) process

Are you interested in becoming involved in decisions about using anonymised patient data for health research? Lay input is essential to our work, ensuring that we always see our research activities through the eyes of the patient and the public.

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CPRD Ethnicity Records

Our CPRD Ethnicity Records are now available, to help make best use of ethnicity data that is available for research.

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Daring to think of data-driven tools for clinical trial recruitment

Tim Williams, Head of Interventional Research for the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), discusses how pragmatic data-enabled, decentralised trials like DaRe2THINK are bringing in a new age of more efficient and secure clinical trial recruitment so patients can benefit from cutting-edge treatments when they need them most.

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