News
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.
Linked data requests on eRAP
From Wednesday 20 April 2022, all requests for linked data from organisations that hold a CPRD Multi-Study Licence should be submitted on the CPRD electronic Research Applications Portal (eRAP).
Changes to the look of our website
We have made some small changes to the look of our website, CPRD.com.
COVID-19 feasibility counts with vaccination events
Feasibility counts to support COVID-19 research are available on our Data highlights web page. The information is updated monthly and now includes feasibility counts for COVID-19 vaccination recording.