OpenSAFELY Talking Therapies will make it easier to carry out high-quality research on psychological treatments. We will securely add the NHS Talking Therapies (NHS TT) dataset to the OpenSAFELY platform, creating a new national resource for studying how psychological therapies perform in routine NHS care.
We will also launch an Electronic Health Record Support Unit (ehrSU) to help researchers use these data safely and effectively. The ehrSU will support mental health researchers with deep domain expertise but limited experience working with electronic health records.
This project will open up the full potential of the NHS TT dataset while maintaining strong privacy protections. It will support studies that improve understanding of what works for whom, and why, in line with Wellcome’s mental health strategy for driving a step change in early interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis.
Once established, we plan to expand this framework to also support research across other areas of mental health data sources, such as Child and Adolescent and Community Mental Health services.
Introducing OpenSAFELY Talking Therapies
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