HISTORIC MOMENT Today at 14:40 Dr Mark Russell from KCL pressed the button to execute the first ever job on the new OpenSAFELY service. Until today, OpenSAFELY was COVID only. Now we are open to critical analyses that improve all patient care, on GP records, securely, at scale. PICS! THREAD!

NEW RESEARCH—Trends in autoimmune rheumatic disease diagnoses before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in England: a population-based cohort study using @OpenSAFELY bit.ly/4p6WELY Plus linked Comment by @jeffsparks.bsky.social bit.ly/446onmh

Would you like to learn a little about how the Irish healthcare service uses painkillers? Me & the great @frankmoriarty.bsky.social Frank will be giving a run down of the magnificent CDRx project which shed new light on prescribing in the HSE. shorturl.at/O01B4 #SpeirGorm #pharmsky #medsky

Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales worldwide. Meanwhile opioid prescribing in Ireland has ↗️, whilst ↙️ in Eng. Me on why the Irish health service should confront its opioid use www.linkedin.com/pulse/irish-... brief🧵 #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #pharmsky #medsky

Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales worldwide. Meanwhile opioid prescribing in Ireland has ↗️, whilst ↙️ in Eng. Me on why the Irish health service should confront its opioid use www.linkedin.com/pulse/irish-... brief🧵 #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #pharmsky #medsky

Ghost Branded Generics: Why does the cost of generic atorvastatin vary? A long nerdy tale about an issue that cost the NHS £11.6million in 2018 Spoiler: there is a happy end which I will write about later New Linkedin Newsletter out today - an oldie but a goodie! www.linkedin.com/pulse/ghost-...

Inaugural Lecture Klaxon! Our magnificent CTO Seb Bacon is a hero of the modern age, and now PROFESSOR Seb Bacon... Come to his inaugural lecture in Oxford! OpenSAFELY! OpenPrescribing! TrialsTracker! OpenCorporates! Open Code! Open Everything! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/05... bacon.boutique

Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales internationally. Meanwhile opioid prescribing in Ireland has risen, whilst falling in England. I wrote about why the Irish health service needs to confront its opioid problem on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/irish-... brief🧵

Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales internationally. Meanwhile opioid prescribing in Ireland has risen, whilst falling in England. I wrote about why the Irish health service needs to confront its opioid problem on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/irish-... brief🧵

Six editions into my Linkedin Medicines x Data newsletter now 👀 If NHS medicines/data/informatics nerd stuff is your thing, you can sign up here: www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...

Six editions into my Linkedin Medicines x Data newsletter now 👀 If NHS medicines/data/informatics nerd stuff is your thing, you can sign up here: www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...

This looks good. Software nerd takes on societal challenges. www.eventbrite.com/e/seb-bacons...

Application deadline is Thursday! APPLY #medsky

We were delighted to welcome alumni, students and academics to our Alumni Retreat 2026 at @hmcoxford.bsky.social Celebrating our global community while exploring AI & digital healthcare, the event showcased the impact, insight and leadership of our alumni network. Read more: https://bit.ly/4sIUvGr

🧠📊Bennett’s CTO @bacon.boutique and Resident Pharmacist @brianmackenna.bsky.social joined the Alumni Retreat: AI & Digital Healthcare Systems to discuss how big data is transforming healthcare operations and improving lives. Learn more: www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/about-us/ @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

Category H now live on OpenPrescribing Example med openprescribing.net/tariff/?code... #pharmsky

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

New BMJ Research: Time trends in newly recorded diagnoses of 19 long term conditions before, during, and after the covid-19 pandemic: population based cohort study in England www.bmj.com/content/392/...

🚨 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-...

🚨 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-...

In this study, Rose Higgins and colleagues look at opioid prescribing in patients on orthopaedic waiting lists during the pandemic to understand the impact of longer elective wait times. https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/e001743

OpenSAFELY 💪

Disease surveillance capacity is very useful, particularly when integrated with decision making by design. We should build even more. www.bmj.com/content/392/...

⏰New OpenSAFELY paper alert ⏰ Time trends in newly recorded diagnoses of 19 long term conditions before, during, and after the covid-19 pandemic: population based cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY www.bmj.com/content/392/... Out today in @bmj.com led by an expert team at Kings! #medsky 🧵

My weekend listening sorted!

New paper from our team out over Christmas in BJCP Trends and variation in the use of andexanet alfa for the reversal of direct oral anticoagulants in NHS trusts in England pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41406988/ Sometimes research becomes more relevant after you’ve written it 🧵 #medsky #haematology

New paper from our team out over Christmas in BJCP Trends and variation in the use of andexanet alfa for the reversal of direct oral anticoagulants in NHS trusts in England pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41406988/ Sometimes research becomes more relevant after you’ve written it 🧵 #medsky #haematology

New paper from our great @bennettoxford.bsky.social team using OpenSAFELY. Interesting paper but more broadly, a huge step forward for NHS data infrastructure. Waiting list data linked to GP data at a patient level for the first time. A key analytic tool to help with reducing NHS waiting lists.

New paper from our great @bennettoxford.bsky.social team using OpenSAFELY. Interesting paper but more broadly, a huge step forward for NHS data infrastructure. Waiting list data linked to GP data at a patient level for the first time. A key analytic tool to help with reducing NHS waiting lists.

OpenPrescribing Hospitals: An open access analytics platform for hospital medicines use in England https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.25340060v1

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...

I had the pleasure of sitting down with @auralapothecary.pharmsky.app recently. My first podcast! Out now, wherever you get your pods from www.theauralapothecary.com/episodes/

I had the pleasure of sitting down with @auralapothecary.pharmsky.app recently. My first podcast! Out now, wherever you get your pods from www.theauralapothecary.com/episodes/

🚨New Episode! Brian Mackenna - In God We Trust, All Others Must Bring Data. We are joined by @brianmackenna.bsky.social of @bennettoxford.bsky.social to discuss OpenPrescribing and how we can get better at using data. It’s about more than the numbers! www.theauralapothecary.com/83-brian-mck...

Didn't get a chance to mention it at yesterday's #BOPA2025 SC #Nivolumab session... The amazing guys at #OpenPrescribing have built a SC Nivo tracker. Want to know if you are ahead of the cure - check this out: hospitals.openprescribing.net/measures/niv...

Price concessions continue to challenge NHS orgs £16million extra cost last month - see our monitoring tool openprescribing.net/national/eng... Sign up to bespoke monitoring for your organisation www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2019/02... Check out C4 news for good explainer of the issues*

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...

Can the NHS implement change quickly? Some say no… but new cancer “super jabs” 🚀 show it can. We’ve just launched 2 new measures on OpenPrescribing Hospitals: 👉 Nivolumab hospitals.openprescribing.net/measures/niv... 👉 Atezolizumab hospitals.openprescribing.net/measures/ate...

COME TO OUR CONFERENCE! Lots of people work on medicines data: researchers; but also "medicines optimisation" teams, using data to directly improve NHS care; and teams who build data tools. These clans rarely meet... Until now! Join us, Dec 10th, in Oxford. www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...

Can the NHS implement change quickly? Some say no… but new cancer “super jabs” 🚀 show it can. We’ve just launched 2 new measures on OpenPrescribing Hospitals: 👉 Nivolumab hospitals.openprescribing.net/measures/niv... 👉 Atezolizumab hospitals.openprescribing.net/measures/ate...

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!

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!

As part of this hiring round we're looking for a post-doc to work with us on OVERTURE, a new NIHR-funded programme on vaccine effectiveness for flu, Covid-19, and RSV. You'll use OpenSAFELY to establish and apply optimal methods for estimating VE in population-scale data

📢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...

Interested in data? Interested in Prizes? You want to enter the Bennett Prize in OpenPrescribing? Join Prof Ben Goldacre and colleagues on Monday the 29th of September 2-3 PM to highlight OpenPrescribing and how to enter the Prize draw. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7c12f8...

We are HIRING! Researchers & analysts Come and join us shipping code, papers and tools like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

We are HIRING! Researchers & analysts Come and join us shipping code, papers and tools like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

NHS England says Lidocaine plasters are not a good use of taxpayers money in most cases. New data and measures for every hospital in England and their use of lidocaine plasters hospitals.openprescribing.net/measures/lvp...

OpenPrescribing for Hospitals now has multi-product search! Suggested by our users once we launched............ Built by us in the open! Check it out hospitals.openprescribing.net/analyse/ Here's an example of codeine tabs

Co-proxamol: Not gone yet New letter from myself and Rich Croker in @bjgp.bsky.social Despite the formal withdrawal of its marketing authorisation nearly two decades ago, co-proxamol prescribing persists, with tragic results. Read it at: doi.org/10.3399/bjgp... (full letter in alt text)