New OpenSAFELY paper 👇
27.01.2026 15:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0New OpenSAFELY paper 👇
27.01.2026 15:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 OpenSAFELY Milestone Paper!
How did the pandemic affect diagnosis rates for chronic diseases?
We analysed rates for 19 long-term conditions in 30m people in England. The results are out this week in @bmj.com
📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...
Live from Oxford with Professor Ben Goldacre — Bad Pharma, Good Data, Better Care
We take the stage at the @bennettoxford.bsky.social with its Director, @bengoldacre.bsky.social, for a conversation on evidence, transparency, and why better data is the starting point—not the end point—of better care
That brings the 2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium to a close. A big thank you to everyone who joined us. It has been a fantastic two days and we look forward to continuing this work with you.
11.12.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Morning Oxford. We will be kicking off day 2 with a demo of our tools. OpenSAFELY, OpenPrescribing, OpenPrescribing Hospitals, OpenCodelists and OpenCodeCounts.
11.12.2025 09:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to all of the winners of the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing. You can read more on our LinkedIn and we will be sharing more on our blog over the coming days.
www.linkedin.com/posts/bennet...
Great start with a deep look at prescribing data.
10.12.2025 10:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning Oxford. Ready for Day 1 of the Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium.
10.12.2025 09:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tomorrow: sold-out Bennett Symposium at Jesus College www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-.... Day 1 = presentations and panels. Day 2 = collaborative sessions and drop-ins with OpenPrescribing & OpenSAFELY teams. If you're attending, see you there 📊
09.12.2025 15:43 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We are hiring researchers!
We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team at the Bennett Institute.
Please check out the job advert and tell your friends!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...
The mighty @bmjmedicine.bsky.social have joined Bluesky!
Follow them!
It reminded me of our first paper there - PINCER medication safety indicators using OpenSAFELY
doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
Short thread to remind everyone else!
📢Competition time!
We are launching the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing to celebrate the best user-led projects!
Have you improved safety, saved money or improved prescribing in your organisation using OpenPrescribing?
Enter now!
Find out more here 👇
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/08...
We are launching a project on improving code sharing in health and medical research funded by @ukri.org and working with @floriannaudet.bsky.social and @bmj.com
Read more here:
bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/08/help-us-improve-code-sharing-in-health-research/
💊 New research from @bennettoxford.bsky.social finds wide variation in how long repeat prescriptions last across England, with durations ranging from 28 to 84 days depending on region, practice & software.
Longer prescriptions could save time for patients & the NHS 👩⚕️
Save the date: 10-11 December 2025
We'll be hosting a symposium on medicines, NHS data, and open research.
Here's more info, and a chance to sign up for updates: www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...
We tried to do some formulary review work for a tiny sub-set of info about antidepressants in an undergrad project back in 2022. Just trying to map which were the live formularies and which one applied to different geographic regions was very hard (thanks to repeated NHS reorganisations) (1/2)
24.06.2025 12:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0We had some thoughts about formularies
24.06.2025 08:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lots going on
24.06.2025 08:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0And in other news
17.06.2025 12:08 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
We shared our OpenPrescribing Hospitals beta with the folks at the Clinical Pharmacy Congress, and the response was very positive! Here's a short post from @brianmackenna.bsky.social with more info -
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
Our first #WorldImmunizationWeek podcast episode is live now!
Tune in to hear from @emprestige.bsky.social about their journey from MSc to PhD @lshtm.bsky.social. They also share insider tips on the best lunch spots in central London, so don't miss this.
soundcloud.com/user-7893872...
We're hiring an OpenSAFELY product manager. Come and join us, we're a nice bunch.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/04...
We're adding hospital prescribing data to our hugely popular openprescribing data platform. So...
What does NHS hospital prescribing data look like? As ever, our team culture is to build, but also to document, all in the open. Here is a deep deep dive... www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
How often do you go to the doctor for your regular prescription?
Every month? Every two months? Twice a year? Once a year?
We ran the numbers.
New paper out in @bjgp.bsky.social 👇
doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...
OpenPrescribing for Hospitals
Live!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
Great BBC news story about new developments at OpenSAFELY, securely provisioning GP data to researchers with innovative methods to protect all patients' privacy, and building out to support mental health research at scale.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm delighted to say our highly secure and productive OpenSAFELY platform has received a further £17 million in funding from Wellcome, including for a new mental health data project. More here, and clips from Today on Radio4 this morning too!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
We were on the Today Programme this morning! Here's a blog post from Ben about why OpenSAFELY is in the news today, and how a total of £17 million of new funding from Wellcome is going to be a game-changer:
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
We've started work on a new service, OpenPrescribing Hospitals - using existing hospital medicines data to help optimise prescribing in hospitals in the future. Here's a sneak peek of what's coming, and some useful background context:
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/01...
#OpenPrescribing
You too could read our OpenSAFELY book while eating snacks. We still have a few copies to give away! Here's how to get one: www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/01...
#OpenSAFELY
