Patient Data Blogs
Richard Stephens on Patient power: How one patient editor influences research
15 July, 2024
Member Spotlight: Maisie McKenzie
11 July, 2024
Scottish Safe Havens
26 April, 2024
Research, powered by NHS Data
18 April, 2024
Highway to Health
18 April, 2024
The Role of CAG in 2024
7 March, 2024
Say what you do, do what you say
29 February, 2024
On becoming a patient sounding board
11 January, 2024
Patient Public Involvement in Research Using Administrative Data
27 July, 2023
Your health information at your fingertips
6 April, 2023
Trustworthiness of sensitive data research is about more than just privacy and security
24 February, 2023
The Scottish National Safe Haven - a secure research environment for health data research
19 January, 2023
What is public benefit?
12 January, 2023
The journey towards effective and efficient health data research - a personal perspective
15 December, 2022
Trusted Research Environment - a name to trust?
17 November, 2022
Global Ethics Day, Public Engagement and the Ethical Use of Data
20 October, 2022
Education outcomes in young people with diabetes: innovative involvement and governance to support p
13 October, 2022
Healthcare systems must get fair value for their data
8 September, 2022
Health data - building trust
10 August, 2022
UK Biobank: why won`t GPs share data?
28 July, 2022
Healthcare systems must get fair value for their data
30 June, 2022
Establishing a colorectal cancer research database from routinely collected health data
30 June, 2022
The tension between the promises and realities of data use in health and social care
20 June, 2022
TREs [Trusted Research Environments] in the NHS – how health data sharing is saving lives
20 June, 2022
Stories from the Heart
13 June, 2022
Explaining patient data in an accessible way
9 June, 2022
Data making a difference: the world-leading data bank behind life-changing research.
27 May, 2022
Openness is vital to future of clinical trials
27 May, 2022
Should patients own their health records?
19 May, 2022
When is your data anonymous
28 April, 2022
Dr Emma Yhnell - born to be a researcher
21 April, 2022
Celebrating young people making a difference in health research.
7 April, 2022
How can we support adoption of the data use register standard
7 April, 2022
Mind the Gap: The importance of measuring inequalities in healthcare
31 March, 2022
An app with every drug?
28 March, 2022
The benefits of a personal health record
17 March, 2022
Meet the Rhondda Valley GP fighting antibiotic resistance with health data
10 March, 2022
Tokenism: Seeing it. Fixing it. Perspectives from IMHA Patient Partners.
10 March, 2022
Reflections on why I got involved in research and why it matters to me
4 March, 2022
The importance of transparency & openness in research data to drive patient benefit – Examples fro
10 February, 2022
The Covid survey and your data – the ONS [Office for National Statistics] wants health records for
10 February, 2022
Making transparency happen
10 February, 2022
Building informed consent – the importance of trust and transparency in safe health data sharing
3 February, 2022
Looking back over an extraordinary year: the 2020 CF Registry Report
3 February, 2022
These patients make sure your health data is handled with care
3 February, 2022
CO CONNECT A laypersons perspective on using health data, building trust and the benefits of sharing
27 January, 2022
Whatever happened to the GP data plan? Time to hear a positive story about sharing medical records
26 January, 2022
Health data: when children reach the age of consent
17 January, 2022
Research helps me take back control
17 January, 2022
COVID-19 projects funded by UKRI’s national core studies to use SAIL Databank.
6 January, 2022
How do you do pioneering research without ever seeing the data
16 December, 2021
How the R number took over our lives — and what we can learn from it
16 December, 2021
Meet Noni Anigbo, DATA-CAN’s first intern through the Black Interns Initiative.
2 December, 2021
Health data will pave the route to patient empowerment – so long as it is conducted and managed in
2 December, 2021
What’s so good about trusted research environments (TREs) anyway?
18 November, 2021
A response to Realising the full potential of data-enabled trials in the UK: a call for action
18 November, 2021
Turning patient engagement into the ‘new normal
11 November, 2021
A reflection on the potential of data-enabled trials
5 November, 2021
PIONEER’s public conscience – reflections on the first year of the Data Trust Committee
4 November, 2021
Why informed consent must be at the heart of medical ethics and regulation
21 October, 2021
The importance of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in healthcare research and transformation.
21 October, 2021
How the HDR UK Public Advisory Board are driving involvement of patients and the public in data acce
8 October, 2021
Demonstrating trustworthiness and maximising public benefit: ADR UK Public Engagement Strategy 2021
8 October, 2021
Aron’s story: how I transform health research in Wales as a student
23 September, 2021
The what and why of trusted research environments
10 September, 2021
DATA-CAN: a co-created cancer data knowledge network to deliver better outcomes and higher societal
11 August, 2021
Fairness: The importance of diversity in health data for creating better, fairer treatment for all
19 July, 2021
The importance of listening and changing
19 July, 2021
Living with
2 July, 2021
What’s the difference between the national collection of GP Data for Planning and Research and the
2 July, 2021
Who should I involve in my research and why? Patients, carers or the public?
2 July, 2021
PIONEER and the Health Data Research Hubs – the story so far
30 April, 2021
The benefits of community mental health standards
30 April, 2021
Figuring it out - Reflections on Patient/Public Involvement with Numbers, Statistics and Data.
22 April, 2021
Primary Care Data – Raw codes to meaningful outputs
15 April, 2021
Finding the vulnerable before COIVD does
1 April, 2021
Behind the scenes: Expanding the COVID-19 dashboard
1 April, 2021
Researcher Experience
29 March, 2021
Fighting the Pandemic With Data: Why cancer data has never been so important by
29 March, 2021
Beyond trust: collective understanding of the common good and patient data
29 March, 2021
Wales’ life-changing rare disease research
11 March, 2021
The INSIGHT Data Trust Advisory Board: data access criteria
4 February, 2021
Using real-time data and predictive analytics to improve cancer outcomes
4 February, 2021
What are data institutions and why are they important?
4 February, 2021
Understanding the value of Healthcare data.
29 January, 2021
Understanding the value of Healthcare data.
29 January, 2021
The Case for Cohorts – Revealing the ‘Before and After’ Response to COVID-19
29 January, 2021
All data matters and all matters data – how Health Data Research hubs are unlocking the power of d
26 January, 2021
Using health data during the pandemic: the need for an accurate risk prediction tool on the frontlin
18 January, 2021
Blind data: how do patients really feel about anonymised health data use?
18 January, 2021
All data matters and all matters data
15 January, 2021
How is additional information in Summary Care Records being used?
7 January, 2021
Using data to combat bias against ethnic minorities
17 December, 2020
Are data repositories the future? An eCRUSADers conversation with DataLoch
10 December, 2020
Why Caldicott Principles and Caldicott Guardians are still relevant in 2020
10 December, 2020
The future of healthcare: is it all about data?
10 December, 2020
What we mean by trustworthy use of patient data
10 December, 2020
Protecting and valuing our healthcare data
10 December, 2020
Distributing access not data: monitoring who can access patient data - What does the future for acce
3 December, 2020
SAIL Databank - health data research during a global pandemic
12 November, 2020
eCRUSADers: one year on
5 November, 2020
Lessons from setting up the INSIGHT Data Trust Advisory Board
5 November, 2020
Introducing NHSXs patient and public voice partners
22 October, 2020
Transparent Health Research whats in it for the public
22 October, 2020
The value of good data to patients
15 October, 2020
Lord Freyberg on the social and economic potential of healthcare data
15 October, 2020
People Make Data: Part 3
1 October, 2020
Why are we waiting for Better Outcomes?
1 October, 2020
The importance of data in fighting disease during the pandemic
1 October, 2020
How PIES [Public Involvement and Engagement Senate] helped to improve understanding about data shari
24 September, 2020
One Cold and Wet Night late in January 2020
24 September, 2020
Without Charities
18 September, 2020
The COVID-19 dashboard: bringing together data and statistics in one place
10 September, 2020
Researcher Experience: Dr Drew Altschul.
10 September, 2020
Doing good with data: what does good look like when it comes to data stewardship?
10 September, 2020
Making a Case for Data Sharing in Europe
3 September, 2020
Citizen’s data, healthcare and trust
28 August, 2020
From diagnostic odyssey to involvement odyssey – an emotional journey.
28 August, 2020
Who owns patient data? The answer is not that simple
14 August, 2020
Using art to engage with people often not involved in research development and production
14 August, 2020
COVID-19 data dashboards: From prototypes to a solution serving thousands in weeks.
14 August, 2020
Follow the Science, Follow the Data: the importance of using real-time data to respond to the effect
6 August, 2020
There is no single truth about Covid-19
6 August, 2020
Data literacy: How to skill up the nation
23 July, 2020
Key take away messages for early career researchers
22 July, 2020
Patient and public involvement in covid-19 policy making
13 July, 2020
Ensuring ethnic diversity in COVID-19 research
13 July, 2020
Research Data Scotland: A conversation with Roger Halliday, Chief Statistician (Scottish Government)
6 July, 2020
People Make Data
26 June, 2020
New Research in Oesophageal and Gastric Cancers
26 June, 2020
Challenging Inequalities in Involvement for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in Research
18 June, 2020
Data in the time of Covid-19
18 June, 2020
Data and Covid-19: why standards matter.
18 June, 2020
Sharing health data for public good: a challenge rooted in trust and legitimacy.
12 June, 2020
Sweeping aside patient involvement during pandemic was too easy.
12 June, 2020
Back to the future? Patient participation in general practice during covid-19
12 June, 2020
Using standards to make care safer and more personalised.
12 June, 2020
The Issue with Tissue: towards a national registry of human tissue sampling.
4 June, 2020
Contact tracing app: implications for medical research and patients
4 June, 2020
The researchers’ experience when attempting to access health data for research
2 June, 2020
The Whys and Hows of applying to the Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care (PB
29 May, 2020
Reliable, real-world data on excess mortality are required to assess the impact of covid-19
22 May, 2020
Reflections of a new Director for Public Voice.
22 May, 2020
COVID-19, Cancer and Comorbidities: A Deadly Triumvirate
22 May, 2020
We’re all in this together’ – what does this mean for COVID-19 research?
15 May, 2020
Information Commissioner sets out new priorities for UK data protection during COVID-19 and beyond
15 May, 2020
Public acceptability of data sharing for research: Trust, security and public interest
15 May, 2020
Easier said than done: the challenge of transparency during Covid-19
23 April, 2020
The human side of health data
23 April, 2020
The toll beyond the covid-19 deaths
17 April, 2020
The toll beyond the covid 19 deaths.
16 April, 2020
Why safety will be paramount as digital care booms
16 April, 2020
Light amid the gloom
9 April, 2020
A doctor’s view from the COVID frontline
9 April, 2020
The views of patients and the public should be included in policy responses to covid-19
3 April, 2020
The power of data in a pandemic.
3 April, 2020
Data-driven responses to coronavirus are only as good as the trust we place in them
3 April, 2020
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