Julia Hippisley-Cox

Join the QResearch Scientific Committee
QResearch is recruiting new members for its Scientific Committee to support high-quality, ethical, population-health research using one of the UK’s largest anonymised health datasets.
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closing date: deadline 8 January 2026

Join the QResearch Scientific Committee
QResearch is recruiting new members for its Scientific Committee to support high-quality, ethical, population-health research using one of the UK’s largest anonymised health datasets.
www.qresearch.org/about/scient...
closing date: deadline 8 January 2026

NEW 3-Year Postdoctoral Position
We’re hiring a postdoc to join a new, interdisciplinary NIHR programme focused on the design-led development and evaluation of patient-centred risk communication tools for medicine use before and during pregnancy. @nihr.bsky.social

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Are GP incentives for smoking cessation hitting the mark? New study questions impact on effective care for heart patients Are UK GP incentives helping heart patients quit smoking? New research questions QOF impact, finding effective cessation treatments lag behind recorded advice, especially for those with mental illness...

another NEW study using the anonymised QResearch database with some interesting results. Are GP incentives for smoking cessation hitting the mark? New study questions impact on effective care for heart patients www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/smoking...

Lastly (for now) we were able to externally validate these algorithms using data from the CPRD Gold database in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This helps generate the highest grade research evidence to support implementation into practice.

the new canPredict-ED algorithms will supersede the widely used qcancer.org tools to help drive improvements in early diagnosis of cancer - an area where the UK has massive scope for improvement.

Development and external validation of prediction algorithms to improve early diagnosis of cancer - Nature Communications Diagnosing cancer early and accurately is key to improving patient outcome. Here, the authors have developed algorithms to estimate the chances of having a person having an existing, as yet undiagnose...

The study, published today in @natcomms.nature.com, can be read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

this fourth graph shows how well the prediction model discriminates between risk of different types of cancer. We were able to include 15 types of cancer in our analysis due to the excellent linkage with the cancer registry.
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This third graph shows how cancer risk varies by age, body mass index and haemoglobin levels, using routinely collected NHS data. there is huge clinical value for patient care through research using anonymised data from GPs so our thanks to the many GPs who share data
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

and the humble white cell and platelet counts (again done many millions of time each year in UK general practice) also show important associations with risk of an existing cancer
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

this graph from our latest paper in Nature Comms shows how risk of cancer varies with levels of commonly used liver function tests. Its particularly valuable addition to the cancer prediction algorithms given the huge number of these blood tests every year

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New algorithms can help GPs predict which of their patients have undiagnosed cancer Two new advanced predictive algorithms use information about a person's health conditions and simple blood tests to accurately predict a patient's chances of having a currently undiagnosed cancer, inc...

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The #research used the anonymised electronic health records of 7.4 million adults in England plus the results of 7 routine blood tests to create the new algorithms which could revolutionise how cancer is detected in primary care, and make it easier for patients to get treatment at earlier stages.

The NHS currently uses prediction #algorithms, such as the QCancer scores, to combine relevant information from patient data and identify individuals deemed at high risk of having a currently undiagnosed cancer, enabling GPs and specialists to call them in for further testing.

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Researchers from @qmul.ac.uk and the @ox.ac.uk have created 2 new advanced predictive algorithms which use health data and routine blood tests to accurately predict a patient’s chances of having a currently undiagnosed #cancer, including hard to diagnose liver and oral cancers.

New algorithms can help GPs predict which of their patients have undiagnosed cancer

Delighted our NEW paper on improved algorithms (CandPredict-ED) to help early diagnosis of cancer has just been published in Nature Comms.

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@qmul-wiph.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk

NEW CLINICAL ACADEMIC GP JOBS
Major new initiative to accelerate academic general practice in the the UK with 20 new clinical/academic posts in NE London and Queen Mary University of London. Come and be part of dynamic and diverse team
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@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

NEW CLINICAL ACADEMIC GP JOBS
Major new initiative to accelerate academic general practice in the the UK with 20 new clinical/academic posts in NE London and Queen Mary University of London. Come and be part of dynamic and diverse team
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@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

NEW GP academic posts - up to 20 posts, each for 5-year posts combining 50% clinical and 50% academic roles at Queen Mary University in London. Lots of opportunities to undertake clinical research at the forefront of medical research.
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more new jobs at QMUL - come and be part of Beth's clinical trial unit at one of the world's most inclusive and diverse universities

Still time to apply for new research data science/epidemiology/stats posts at QMUL closing date 30th March

NEW POSTS
We are advertising two new three-year research posts are part of a new NIHR programme grant about the Safety of Medicines in Pregnancy to develop novel tools to improve decision-making.

Details below, closing 30/3/25:
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TWO NEW NIHR POSTDOC RESEARCH POSTS
with myself and @rohinimathur.bsky.social at QMUL,
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social about Safety of Medicines in Pregnancy to develop novel tools to improve decision making @nihr.bsky.social

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TWO NEW NIHR POSTDOC RESEARCH POSTS
with myself and @rohinimathur.bsky.social at QMUL,
@qmul-wiph.bsky.social about Safety of Medicines in Pregnancy to develop novel tools to improve decision making @nihr.bsky.social

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Concerning ethnic disparities in access to safe COVID-19 treatment, new study shows New research shows concerning disparities in how Sotrovimab - a COVID-19 treatment approved for extremely clinically vulnerable patients - is given to patients, despite it being safe.

New research shows a worrying trend: not all clinically vulnerable patients are getting equal access to Sotrovimab, a COVID-19 treatment, despite it being safe to use.

@juliahcox.bsky.social and colleagues raise serious concerns about health inequalities.

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#HealthEquity #COVID19

Concerning ethnic disparities in access to safe COVID-19 treatment, new study shows New research shows concerning disparities in how Sotrovimab - a COVID-19 treatment approved for extremely clinically vulnerable patients - is given to patients, despite it being safe.

Concerning ethnic disparities in access to safe COVID-19 treatment, new study shows
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Many thanks Azeem, that would be super. I'll drop you a line once we have landed

So delighted to be joining QMUL and Barts at the inaugural Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Predictive Medicine. One of the most technically advanced and largest NHS Trusts in the country in the culturally richest and most diverse parts of the UK

Delighted to be part of this new £10M programme to develop new Cancer Risk Prediction models funded by @cancerresearchuk.org @nihr.bsky.social @hdruk.bsky.social and others as I start my new Chair at @qmullibrary.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

Identifying the risk of dementia from anticholinergic Drugs

www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/case-st...
new case study arising from research funded by NIHR SPCR
@nihrspcr.bsky.social