If you'd like to learn more about how OpenSAFELY works - and how we solved the privacy and efficiency challenges, to make national GP data securely accessible - here's a 5 minute video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...

If you'd like to learn more about how OpenSAFELY works - and how we solved the privacy and efficiency challenges, to make national GP data securely accessible - here's a 5 minute video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...

Huge thanks as ever to TPP, Optum/EMIS, Peter Bennett Foundation, @ox.ac.uk @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social and all the many users of OpenSAFELY. You can read more here:
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

Read about OpenSAFELY at
OpenSAFELY.org

To get this takes time. We hire software engineers, and they learn with us about epidemiology, NHS data, and TREs. We hire researchers, and they learn with us about GitHub, and what technical product managers do. This is the team that won this award!

There are no single heroes here. We solve hard problems that require deep and diverse knowledge. So we have researchers, but also software engineers, pooling skills and knowledge, working as a single creative community (rather than researchers instructing developers to build widgets)...

I'm particularly pleased because of what the Queen Elizabeth Prizes represent. They are part of the honours system, but uniquely they reward _teams_ rather than individuals. This is critical, because it is the true nature of modern, team science...

That's such an impressively wise and empathetic thing to emphasise in public messaging

Lol this is good life hacking

Just said this to someone else too, but I love the open data on train locations, often use and cite as example of open data done usefully and well

I love the open data on train locations, often use and cite as example of open data done usefully and well

Oh yes

Fair!

Ah yes

In fact, maybe you could also get: information on your refund entitlement and how to complain; an estimate of the total wasted human life hours attributable to that train company this year; and the salary of the ceo.