Perspectives

The primary care data from GPs that are hosted by the DataLoch service provide huge opportunities for population-level observation research o...

Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is crucially important for research. It ensures that the value of research – tangible be...

I am a researcher who focuses on deriving data-driven insights within the ageing space. My work centres on how we can create a pathway for ac...

At Scotland’s Health Research and Innovation Conference, I recently gave a presentation (awarded best talk) to delve into our Scottish Safe H...

As part of our March 2023 update, we focused on developing a portfolio of lifestyle data – such as Body Mass Index (BMI) measurements and smo...

I have Googled (other search engines are available) the terms “governance”, “information governance”, “data governance”, “governance framewor...

…some of us wear regular clothes and use R and SQL to analyse data. I joined DataLoch in January 2021 as a Data Analyst. I work with researc...

What is frailty? Frailty is the term used for people at high risk of bad health outcomes after an illness, including even apparently minor c...