OpenSAFELY Talking Therapies
OpenSAFELY Talking Therapies will make it easier to carry out high-quality research on psychological treatments.
Latest posts
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Creating a new patient and public involvement (PPI) group for OpenSAFELY NHS Talking Therapies project – introduction
Background Our mission was clear; to bring together a group of around 12 people with firsthand experience using the NHS’s adult psychological interventions service – NHS Talking Therapies – to collaborate with us on our new Wellcome-funded OpenSAFELY NHS Talking Therapies project, as a new patient and public involvement (PPI) group. For me personally, as…
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From public NHS Talking Therapies reports to research insights: Introducing the nhstt R package
In our previous post we introduced the NHS TT data reports that NHS England publishes openly alongside interactive dashboards for exploring key measures directly in a browser. These datasets cover various measures, including referral activity, waiting times, clinical outcomes, and patient-reported outcome measures. The value of this publicly available data has been demonstrated by Clark et al. (2018),…
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Introducing our series on publicly available mental health data – NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression
This post opens a new series summarising publicly available mental health data resources, beginning with NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression (NHS TT). The series aims to help researchers, analysts, and clinicians navigate existing data sources, understand their structure and limitations, and use them effectively to inform and conduct research projects. The NHS Talking…
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Introducing OpenSAFELY Talking Therapies
OpenSAFELY Talking Therapies will make it easier to carry out high-quality research on psychological treatments.