Pilot Health Research Support Service data sources

The research studies will require a number of data sources to complete their work and the confirmed data sources are listed below. To view more information about the data sources and organisations please follow the web links:

Primary care data
The pilot Health Research Support Service is engaged with two GP practices: Brownlow Health and Wansford & Kings Cliffe Practice.

UK Renal Registry
www.renalreg.com

NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme
www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/bowel

Thames Cancer Registry
www.thames-cancer-reg.og.uk

Socio-Economic Reference data
http://data.gov.uk/dataset/index_of_multiple_deprivation_imd_2007  

“ASCEND (A Study of Cardiovascular Events in Diabetes)” Cohort – University of Oxford Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU)
Interventional study
http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/ascend/   

“SHARP (Study of Heart and Renal Protection)” Cohort - University of Oxford Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU)
http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~sharp/Martin  

Death Registrations & Birth Registrations
www.statistics.gov.uk

Hospital Episode Statistics*
www.hesonline.nhs.uk  

Medical Research Information Service*
http://www.ic.nhs.uk/services/medical-research-information-service   

* The following data sources have been provided by the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care Copyright © [2010], re-used with the permission of The Health and Social Care Information Centre.  All rights reserved.