News
Bank holidays and office closure dates
The CPRD office will be closed for the UK bank holidays.
Expert Review Committee (ERC) Chair and Member vacancies
Thank you for your interest in the Chair and Member vacancies. The deadline for applications was 14 March 2025.
Bank holidays and office closure dates
CPRD Enquiries and the Research Data Governance (RDG) Secretariat will be closed from 12pm (GMT) on Tuesday 24 December until 10am (GMT) on Thursday 2 January 2025.
Linked data update
The latest update of linked data includes Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Admitted Patient Care (APC) data, HES Outpatient data, Office for National Statistics (ONS) death registration data, and small area deprivation datasets.
NorthWest EHealth (NWEH) announces a pilot to test a new model for finding and recruiting participants for clinical trials using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
NorthWest EHealth (NWEH) has announced a pilot of a new model for safely and securely finding participants for clinical trials, using the Medicine and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data services. This initiative aims to improve the speed, scale, inclusivity and representativeness of participants found for novel clinical trials.
CPRD selected as a Data Partner for the Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) UK Real-World Evidence Network
CPRD has been selected as one of seven data partners to join a pilot UK Real-World Evidence Network.
CPRD to Attend International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) 2024
We are pleased to announce that CPRD we will be attending the 2024 ISPE Annual meeting in Berlin, Germany. We look forward to connecting with existing and potential CPRD users and engage in discussions on the latest advancements in our field.
National Data Opt-out and deceased/transferred out patients prior to 1997
The National Data Opt-out programme allows patients to indicate if they do not want their confidential patient information to be shared for purposes beyond their individual care across the health and care system in England. The technical implementation of the opt-outs programme affects some specific sub-groups of patients in the CPRD primary care data, and researchers should consider excluding time before 1997 when defining a study period.
eRAP update: Advance notice of word limit restrictions to the scientific sections of RDG applications
From September 2024 word limits will be introduced to the scientific sections of RDG applications, including feasibility studies.
Bank holidays and office closure dates
The CPRD office will be closed on the following dates in May 2024: Monday 6 May, Monday 27 May and Tuesday 28 May