The Gateway Newsletter  

June 2024 

Welcome to the growing community of Gateway users accessing the UK’s unified platform to search, discover and request access to health data sets for research and innovation.

🔎 New datasets now discoverable on the Gateway 

Explore the latest metadata descriptions recently onboarded or updated on the Gateway! 

Mother & Infant Research Electronic Data Analysis (MIREDA)

• Born in Scotland (BiS) 
• MuMPreDiCT (Pregnancy and postpartum outcomes of mothers and their offspring)

The Million Women Study 

• The Million Women Study

PIONEER   

• Intentional Self-Poisoning Emergency Admissions presenting to hospital

📝 Registration open for the next federated analytics webinar 

Join us for the second instalment of a brand new webinar series from Health Data Research UK on federated analytics. Our focus is on the application of federated analytics in European national health data programmes, with guest speakers from Health-RI and NFDI4Health.

👏 Championing technical careers in health data science

HDR UK were recently presented with a milestone award for progress to date on its Technician Commitment action plan, the Institute's pledge and commitment to supporting and addressing the challenges affecting technical staff working in health data research.

Discover the fascinating technical journeys of our own tech team members: Clara Fennessy, Senior Technical Programme Manager; and Branwen Snelling, Research Software Engineer.

🌐 New Real-World Evidence Network Co-ordination Centre 

Daniel Prieto-Alhambra from the University of Oxford has been awarded funding from HDR UK to lead a new co-ordination centre for a pilot real-world evidence network to utilise data gathered from multiple UK sources.

The aim of the pilot Network is to demonstrate the potential of the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model (CDM) as an enabler of efficient cross-nation federated research studies, utilising data from multiple NHS sources.

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