These seminars aim to bring together researchers across the EoE ARC with an interest in better use of health and care data, provide an opportunity to share expertise in different types of data and create a forum to learn and exchange ideas.
Topic: Data driven insights – using linked data across health and councils
Date: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Time: 12.30-13.30
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About the seminar
The Care City Cohort was originally set up in 2018 for a research programme. It contains data for confirmed residents of Barking and Dagenham between 1st April 2011 and 30th June 2020, with updates approved for data up to 31st March 2022. The dataset uniquely links together, at an individual and household level, information from local government, health providers and health commissioners to create a rich dataset that includes individual level demographic, socio-economic factors, markers of poor health and information about health and social care service use. Internationally, there is growing use of linked datasets to build more complete understanding of population profiles and population-wide health and care service utilisation. This linked dataset is the first of its kind in the U.K.
The talk will share background on the curation of the data set and examples of how it has been used to date.
Bio: Dr Jenny Shand has been a Director at UCLPartners since its inception in 2009, providing strategic leadership and running a diverse programme portfolio. This includes supporting the creation of Learning Health Systems across London, from work with individual clinical departments and hospital trusts to Integrated Care Systems and Regional teams, leading the evaluation team and securing grant funding and income generation to support delivery of UCLP’s strategy.
Jenny is a Non-Executive Director at Care City, an innovation centre for healthy ageing and regeneration in East London, a Director of the Care City Cohort, a unique individual-level linked dataset for residents of Barking and Dagenham, a researcher at UCL and an RSA fellow.
Jenny has wide experience of healthcare – as a policy fellow at the Kings Fund, strategy consultant at McKinsey and manager at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
She has a PhD in Health Economics from UCL, a Masters in Public Health from LSHTM and a philosophy degree from Oxford University.