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UK LLC Year 1 Update

Posted on: 19th Jul 2024 | Filed under: News

UK LLC are delighted to announce that we have now completed the first year of our programme grant and share year 1 updates. A huge thank you to all of our collaborators and who have been involved throughout the past year, we have achieved a lot and look forward to...

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The long COVID evidence gap in England.

Posted on: 12th Jun 2024 | Filed under: News

Out of 896 people who reported long COVID to their longitudinal population study, only 5.4% had long COVID diagnoses in their health records. These findings findings by a study published by The Lancet illustrate that 94.6% self-reported long COVID but had no evidence of diagnosis and could therefore reflect unmet...

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UK LLC poster published in International Journal of Population Data Science

Posted on: 3rd Jun 2024 | Filed under: News

UK LLC is delighted to share the published proceedings from the UK Health Data Research Alliance Transparency Showcase event last week. Establishing transparency in our processes and decision making at UK LLC is vital to building trust with study participants and the public.  We are proud to be included in...

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UK LLC in successful Smart Data Research UK funding bid with the University of Bristol

Posted on: 28th May 2024 | Filed under: News

Thanks to funding from a Smart Data Research UK accelerator scheme, UK LLC are delighted to be working with Dr Anya Skatova, from the University of Bristol, on a joint project to investigate acceptability and governance of linking smart data with UK Longitudinal Population Study research. Read the SDR UK...

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A tribute to Dolapo (Della) Ogunleye

Posted on: 22nd Jan 2024 | Filed under: News

We were very sad to hear that Della Ogunleye died from breast cancer towards the end of last year. As a member of the UK LLC Public Advisory Group for the last two years, Della brought her smile and her laugh to every meeting and we will miss that greatly....

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UK Data Service Blog

Posted on: 17th Jan 2024 | Filed under: News

UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration Director, Andy Boyd, has written a blog for UK Data Service about the latest developments at UK LLC. The blog outlines the service that the UK LLC delivers as part of the UK’s research infrastructure and the impact this will have on the longitudinal research community:...

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UK LLC awarded funding from new initiative

Posted on: 10th Nov 2023 | Filed under: News

We are thrilled to be one of nineteen projects that have been awarded funding from a new initiative launched by Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). This funding will enable members of the UK Health Data Research Alliance and other custodians of...

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Associations between self reported healthcare disruption due to covid-19 and avoidable hospital admission

Posted on: 20th Jul 2023 | Filed under: News

People who experienced disrupted access to healthcare (including appointments and procedures) during the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to have potentially preventable hospital admissions, finds a study published by the BMJ today. UK LLC has produced a lay summary and infographic to help the public better understand the paper. We spoke with first author,...

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The UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration, a partnership between leading UK longitudinal studies

Posted on: 24th May 2023 | Filed under: News

UK LLC has been awarded £6.4 million of funding (MR/X021556/1) until the end of 2028 to consolidate and expand its transformative work based on a national Trusted Research Environment (TRE) for the longitudinal research community. It is UK LLC’s mission to provide a data linkage resource to our partner studies...

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Achieving ISO Certification of UK LLC’s Trusted Research Environment

Posted on: 17th Mar 2023 | Filed under: News

UK LLC’s Information Security Team share how they prepared for the ISO 27001 audit in our latest blog.

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