NHS Digital

Our experts explain how we are using data to drive research and improve NHS and care services.  

NHS Digital Data Points

Our experts explain how we are using data to drive research and improve NHS and care services.

Collage image of Grace Melvin, co-chair of the GP Data Patient and Public Engagement and Communications Advisory Panel

We must listen to the public on GP data

Grace Melvin, co-chair of the GP Data Patient and Public Engagement Advisory Panel, explains the importance of putting people's voices and concerns at the heart of the effort to improve the NHS's use of GP data.

Grace Melvin

Senior Policy Officer, Association of Medical Research Charities

Openness is vital to future of clinical trials

Dolapo Ogunleye, a member of the patient and public co-development panel for NHS DigiTrials, says technology is improving clinical trials but we need to reach out to all communities to ensure the benefits are equally shared.

Dolapo Ogunleye

Member of the Patient and Public Co-Development Panel, NHS DigiTrials

Your NHS data makes a difference

Eva Simmonds, programme head for GP Data, reflects on how NHS data powers the NHS and provides an update on the GP Data for Planning and Research programme.

Eva Simmonds

Programme Head, GP Data for Planning and Research, NHS Digital

Picture shows a row of vials containing the AstraZeneca vaccine

Vaccine trials: Getting the numbers right

Collette Healy, Delivery Support Officer from NHS DigiTrials, explains how the Permission to Contact Service supported rapid recruitment to 15 COVID-19 vaccine trials.

Collette Healy

Delivery Support Officer for DigiTrials, NHS Digital

Two teenage girls writing on a whiteboard in a classroom.

How do you do pioneering research without ever seeing the data?

Lucy Elliss-Brookes, Associate Director for Data Curation at NHS Digital, explains the new approach that allowed researchers to show the life-changing benefits of the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine – without any direct access to patient data.

Lucy Elliss-Brookes

Associate Director for Data Curation, NHS Digital

NHS consultant and clinical researcher Dr Marion Mafham sits at her computer.

Data joins the dots

Dr Marion Mafham, NHS consultant kidney specialist and clinical researcher at the University of Oxford, explains how safe and secure access to GP data would benefit public health research.

Marion Mafham

NHS consultant and clinical researcher, University of Oxford

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How we're improving our data dashboards

Alistair Bullward, Product Owner for Open Data and Data Visualisation, provides an update on our open and live data dashboards that are helping to battle COVID-19 and help build a better NHS for the future.

Alistair Bullward

Product Owner, Open Data and Data Visualisation, NHS Digital