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NHS Hack Day @NHSHackDay

NHS Hack Day geeks who love the NHS. Healthcare professionals, developers, datasets, patients, problems, and prizes. See our website for details of next event.

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Ben Goldacre
@bengoldacre
26 Nov 2025
PING! We've won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform! ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11-26-ope…

OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education

Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.

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One day to go until @NHSHackDay #29 in Belfast! #nhshd29 We’re incredibly grateful to have partnered with @KainosSoftware who are hosting us at their Belfast HQ this weekend! We’d also like to thank for @RCPCHtweets and @okkohealth for their support with this event!
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Ben Goldacre
@bengoldacre
20 Feb 2025
I'm delighted to say our highly secure and productive OpenSAFELY platform has received a further £17 million in funding from @wellcometrust, including a major new mental health data project. More here, and clips from @BBCr4today this morning too! Onward! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/0…

Game-changing new funding from Wellcome for OpenSAFELY and mental health data | Bennett Institute...

This morning the Today programme on Radio 4 did two great spots on OpenSAFELY.

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Today's @NHSHackDay presentations will (technology-willing) be live-streamed on this link: youtube.com/live/p5T6yRFD1GE #nhshd27
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If our technology plays nicely, we will also have a livestream of the presentations on Youtube! Keep an eye on our X stream for link later on. #nhshd27
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We're also pleased to welcome a panel of friendly evaluators this afternoon: Antonella Gorenflos, Head of Strategy, Patchwork Health Stephanie Riley, Senior Product Manager, DrDoctor 1/2 #nhshd27
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And: Mike Wright, Innovation Business Partner, CW Innovation, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Stephen Rockman, Founder Merism Capital & Entrepreneur in Residence, InnovationRCA 2/2 #nhshd27
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Everyone @NHSHackDay cracking on with their projects, racing to get them as progressed as possible before presentations at 1430! Presentations will be recorded and published on Youtube after the event. Details of all presented projects will be added to our event pages. #nhshd27
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What an awesome start to the weekend! 22 brilliant pitches about solving real-world problems! Teams are forming and starting to move out to their spaces to start hacking! #nhshd27
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It’s NHS Hack Day day! Can’t wait to see you all at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 🏥 Doors open at 9am for a 9:30 start! See you soon! #nhshd27
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It’s NHS Hack Day 27 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital tomorrow! #nhshd27 We can’t wait! Check your email for latest important information if you are joining us this weekend 😊
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3 weeks to go until NHS Hack Day #27 and we can't wait! Sat 12th and Sun 13th October @ Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. There are still tickets available on nhshackday.com and we'd love to see you there! #nhshackday

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@WeAreDrDoctor enables hospitals to deliver on the productivity and efficiency benefits of Hybrid Healthcare, utilising a powerful combination of pragmatic technology and service-design expertise to transform the way care is communicated, co-ordinated and delivered. #nhshackday
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@heypatchwork’s innovative end-to-end workforce solution was originally developed in partnership with @ChelwestFT and has since supported safe, cost-effective and flexible staffing for over 40,000 clinicians and managers across 50 healthcare organisations. #nhshackday
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We're holding another NHS Hack Day on 12th and 13th October at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital! Tickets at nhshackday.com Held in collaboration with CW Innovation, and supported by @WeAreDrDoctor and @heypatchwork
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The BMJ
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30 May 2024
There is clear value to society in knowing who dies from #preventable causes and the reasons for their death. This information can help to prevent future deaths and tackle longstanding inequalities, say @DrHNaqvi @drcjar bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q118…

Better use of data can help to prevent future deaths

What is recorded, about whom, and for what purpose, tells us a lot about a society, say Carl Reynolds and Habib Naqvi In 1611, in the wake of the bubonic plague, King James I chartered the Company of...

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Ben Lovell@DrBenLovell
14 May 2024
Anyone ever tried to model &predict ED attendances using AI? Perhaps tracking weekly variation, projected weather conditions, any big national/sporting events etc “You will experience big surge in demand in 3 days time; recommend staffing accordingly” Or is system too chaotic?
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