Published: August 7th, 2023. The Conversation. Authors: Natasha Kennedy and Amrita Bandyopadhyay, The National Centre for Population Health & Wellbeing Research. Identifying domestic abuse victims earlier could help to reduce future emergency medical admissions. Our new research shows how this could be done before a victim even involves the police by connecting information gathered by the police…
Linking police and healthcare data has revealed that highly vulnerable individuals are detectable before the involvement of the police. Now a new study by Swansea University researchers says data sharing and linkage could help reduce police callouts and future emergency medical admissions. This study, published in The Lancet, and led by the National Centre for…
A pioneering report published today by researchers at the National Centre for Population Health & Wellbeing Research explores the barriers of linking police data with health data and sets out recommendations for future work. Why is linking this data important? Government legislation (the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act) requires Police, local government, and the NHS…