BREAKING NEWS!!!! 

We are organising a Study-A-Thon with the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) during the last quarter of 2023. We will work with the MHRA to answer two important questions:

- The use of fluoroquinolones in UK primary care and hospital settings

- Characterising rectopexy in the United Kingdom

 If you have access to relevant data mapped to the OMOP Common Data Model and are interested to participate please e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by or before 31st July 2023

OHDSI UK

Background 

The United Kingdom has more than 20 Data Partners in the EHDEN network and several EHDEN-certified SMEs. The UK scientific network is dynamic and research active, with numerous initiatives in the fields of health informatics, health data sciences, pharmacoepidemiology, and related areas.

Many UK partners have made substantial contributions to recent EHDEN- and OHDSI-sponsored research, and key national players like Health Data Research UK and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) are increasingly interested in the use of OMOP for federated analytics nationally.

Objectives 

The aims of the UK national node include:

1. To adopt OHDSI’s mission, vision, and values
2. To facilitate the coordination of national members at a national and international level with OHDSI and EHDEN partners
3. To promote the OHDSI mission in the UK in collaboration with relevant national stakeholders including academia, healthcare organizations, HTA agencies, regulators, patient organizations, policy makers, clinical guideline developers and pharmaceutical and life science industry
4. To initiate and/or collaborate in relevant national research collaborations and co-ordination with European and global OHDSI initiatives
5. To organize training programs in the field of Health Data Sciences and related areas
6. To engage with the European and global OHDSI leadership

Leading Organisation 

Health Data Sciences Section, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford

Members / Data Partners 

• Akrivia Health
• Aridhia DRE
• Barts Health NHS Trust
• British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre
• Clinical Architecture Ltd
• Clinical Practice Research Datalink
• Connected Bradford
• DataLoch
• Edinburgh Cancer Centre
• GOSH
• Health Data Research UK
• King's College London
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals
• NICE
• Nottingham University Hospitals Trust
• Optimum Patient Care
• Queen Mary University of London
• UK National Neonatal Research Database
• University College London
• University College London Hospitals
• Health Informatics Centre
• University of Dundee
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Nottingham

How to contribute?

Any UK-based institution interested to join the UK OHDSI Node should get in touch with the coordinator: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.