Webinars

The HaemSTAR Breakfast Briefing webinar series, in collaboration with the limbus UK aims to bring you inspiring speakers and research-themed talks in non-malignant haematology.

WEBINAR: Using open data to explore medicines use

With Victoria Speed, Senior Anticoagulation Pharmacist

Friday, 20th November 2026

8:15am - 9:00am (GMT)

A practical talk and demonstration of the OpenPrescribing Hospitals and OpenPrescribing Primary Care platforms, showing how openly available NHS data can be used to explore medicines use across England.

In this session, Vicky will give an introduction to the data behind the platforms, demonstrate how to use them, and explore how they can support audit and feedback. There will be practical examples and ideas for investigating variation in medicines use, with plenty of opportunity to see what the data can and can’t tell you.

PANEL
Victoria Speed, Senior Anticoagulation Pharmacist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Clinical Informatician, University of Oxford
Hosted by Noma Tshuma, NHSBT Clinical Research Fellow, Cambridge University, and Data Lead for HaemSTAR

8.15 - 9.00 Click here to find out more and register

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