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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
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.
CPRD NCRAS data delivery update
CPRD now holds 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.
CPRD Aurum code browser issue
We have been made aware of a limitation with the CPRD Aurum code browser.
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).
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.
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.