Researchers from the DataLab, housed at the University of Oxford, have this month published a paper discussing the Barriers to working with National Health Service Englands Open Data.
The authors use their experiences of developing and maintaining OpenPrescribing.net, an online tool to help users explore NHS primary care prescribing open data, to describe what kind of barriers are encountered when trying to access the data and suggest solutions that would make the data more usable and impactful.
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