Connected Bradford - Linked Education and Health Research Database
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
239924
Contact name
John Wright
Contact email
Research summary
Bradford linked health and education records research database
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Bradford Leeds Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/YH/0239
Date of REC Opinion
3 Aug 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
The data to be stored is routinely recorded electronic data from healthcare organisations in the Bradford and Airedale region and education records from the local authorities and the National Pupil Database held by the Department of Education. This dataset covers the populations served by those organisations within this boundary that have a date of birth from 1st January 1988 to 1st September 2014. The estimated cohort size is 220,000.
Research programme
Bradford has high concentrations of poor social mobility, poor educational attainment and poor health. These risks factors concentrated within this geographical dimension are marked by low incomes, high unemployment and low socio-economic health status. This opens up a challenging multi-disciplinary health research agenda. The linked health and education research database will enable us to identify and support health issues impacting low levels of educational attainment and develop research based interventions within schools to support teachers, children and healthcare professionals. The research database provides a huge benefit and public interest to improve delivery in health and education services across Bradford and supports the fourth principle of the Bradford Social Mobility and Opportunity Area. Linked population health and education data enables us to improve health economics and provides us with a holistic viewpoint to understand multifactorial and to identify the most important factors which can only be achieved by accessing all clinical measures.
Research database title
Bradford linked health and education records research database
Establishment organisation
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Establishment organisation address
Bradford Institute for Health Research - Bradford Royal Infirmary
Duckworth Lane
Bradford
BD9 6RJ