We're hosting a visit from Prof George Davey Smith (george davey smith) on 30 September. He'll be giving 2 public lectures on the day - everyone's welcome, but places are limited. More info and sign up links here: bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/08/c…

OpenSAFELY for retail data? Nice mention for our work on BBC Radio 4 Today from Henry Dimbleby yesterday. We built OpenSAFELY: the new, super-secure platform for the NHS for health data. Can you use our approach - just enough access - on retail data? Yes! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/o…

Glorious public lecture next week by the mighty george davey smith in Oxford, and the inaugural Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science guest lecture! New spaces opened up, book, come, COME! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/08/c…

Posted on the Bennett blog yesterday - a short reflection on a news item about retail data and health. Could we apply a bit of OpenSAFELY thinking to that? We'd love to find out... bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/o…

In 2020 me + theirishpharmacist published a detailed paper in The BMJ describing how hospital medicines data in England was largely impossible to access for public good. Thousands of you engaged! x.com/bengoldacre/st… What happened next? BLOG! + 🧵 bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/e…

Inequalities in rapid weight gain during COVID-19 pandemic observed among adults with T2 #diabetes and #hypertension in new OpenSAFELY Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science study. Women, younger adults, those in deprived areas or with mental health conditions at highest risk. ow.ly/Fnyy50TCXWe

New on the Bennett blog: a guest post by our friend Miriam Samuel from Queen Mary University London, on research to investigate weight gain and obesity patterns in light of the pandemic Wolfson Institute of Population Health NIHR School for Primary Care Research The British Journal of General Practice PLOS Medicine bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/11/i…

We're running workshops in Dec/Jan, to hear people's views on health research with OpenSAFELY. We need help spreading the word. Health and data professionals: please share widely with patient and community groups you know! Thanks! More info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/have-your-sa…

Getting started at our Community Symposium in London - Ben Goldacre taking the stage

Kicking off our afternoon session at the Community Symposium: it's Kamran Abbasi, Editor in Chief of the BMJ, with some rousing words of support and encouragement

Stuti Bagri and Sophie Julian from the Nuffield Trust, with a talk about using OpenSAFELY to measure quality of end-of-life care

Also new today is our exciting new OpenSAFELY logo, which has just appeared on opensafely.org

Here’s Tariq Khokar from Wellcome, announcing £17 million of new funding for the Bennett Institute over the next 7 years. Thank you Wellcome! Wellcome

We really enjoyed welcoming so many people to our OpenSAFELY Community Symposium in London last week. We're making videos of every session, so there'll be an archive for those who couldn't make it In the meantime, here's a little teaser :) youtube.com/watch?v=Pv_Z9r… #OpenSAFELY

For those of you who couldn't come to our OpenSAFELY Community Symposium - now you can catch up on the whole thing bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/12/c…

We're in the news today - here's why!

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. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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 Brian with more info - bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06/o…

We've been busy recently... Launching OpenPrescribing Hospitals bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06/o… Sharing our thoughts on formularies (we have lots of thoughts) bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06/o… Getting started with OpenSAFELY Schools schools.opensafely.org

🗓️ The next public engagement in data and AI Community of Practice meeting is Wednesday 9 July at 2pm on Zoom. Register via link. Our first confirmed speaker on the theme of health data is Frederica Longfoot from OpenSAFELY @bennettoxford.bsky.social connectedbydata.org/events/2025-07…