News
CPRD Ethnicity Records update and HDR UK webinar
We are pleased to announce the launch of the latest CPRD Ethnicity Record algorithm derived datasets along with the September 2023 releases of CPRD GOLD and CPRD Aurum. The CPRD Ethnicity Record datasets are comprised of a single derived ethnicity category for each patient in CPRD GOLD and CPRD Aurum.
Lay Member vacancies for CPRD Research Data Governance (RDG) process
Are you interested in becoming involved in decisions about using anonymised patient data for health research? Lay input is essential to our work, ensuring that we always see our research activities through the eyes of the patient and the public.
Get involved – We are currently seeking to appoint two Lay Members to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Research Data Governance (RDG) process. CPRD research data services are delivered by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) with support from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), as part of the Department of Health and Social Care.
CPRD Ethnicity Records
Our CPRD Ethnicity Records are now available, to help make best use of ethnicity data that is available for research.
Daring to think of data-driven tools for clinical trial recruitment
Tim Williams, Head of Interventional Research for the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), discusses how pragmatic data-enabled, decentralised trials like DaRe2THINK are bringing in a new age of more efficient and secure clinical trial recruitment so patients can benefit from cutting-edge treatments when they need them most.
Bank holidays and office closure dates
Over the Easter period, CPRD Enquiries will be closed from 6pm (BST) on Thursday 6 April until 8am (BST) on Tuesday 11 April 2023.
New paper about ethnicity recording
For this recently published paper, researchers from the CPRD team and King’s College London looked at the completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the CPRD GOLD, CPRD Aurum, and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data.
Expert Review Committee (ERC) Chair and Member vacancies
Are you interested in being involved in decisions about using anonymised patient data for health research?
Latest data from CPRD - November 2022
The latest versions of the CPRD GOLD and CPRD Aurum databases are now available.
New Director of CPRD
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Puja Myles as the new Director of CPRD.