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Cardiovascular disease (CVD)-COVID-UK / COVID-IMPACT
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{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"CVD-COVID-UK, co-ordinated by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Data Science Centre, is one of the NIHR-BHF Cardiovascular Partnership's National Flagship Projects."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"It aims to understand the relationship between COVID-19 and cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack, heart failure, stroke, and blood clots in the lungs through analyses of de-identified, pseudonymised, linked, nationally collated health datasets across the nations of the UK."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"The consortium has over 400 members across more than 50 institutions including data custodians, data scientists with methodological and analytical expertise and clinicians, all of whom have signed up to an agreed set of principles with an inclusive, open and transparent ethos. Approved researchers access data within secure trusted research environments (TREs) provided by NHS England in England, the National Data Safe Haven in Scotland, the SAIL Databank in Wales and the Honest Broker Service in Northern Ireland."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Linkable datasets include those from primary and secondary care, COVID lab tests and vaccinations, deaths, critical care, prescribing/dispensing, cardiovascular and stroke audits, maternity services and mental health."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Building on the success of CVD-COVID-UK, the BHF Data Science Centre has gained ethical and regulatory approval to broaden the scope of the programme to all COVID-related research (in NHS England's Secure Data Environment service for England only). This is known as COVID-IMPACT and it helps to support research projects from the wider community."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"More detail about CVD-COVID-UK / COVID-IMPACT, including a dashboard of datasets currently available in each nation's TRE, can be found at: https://bhfdatasciencecentre.org/areas/cvd-covid-uk-covid-impact/"}]}]}