HERON-UK Year 2 Announcement

OMOP Network Enters New Phase

In 2024, HDR UK established the Health Data Research OMOP Network for the UK (HERON-UK) – previously known as the Real-World Evidence Network. The network was originally funded for a one-year pilot phase from June 2024 to June 2025, during which seven data partners were recruited and onboarded and the network successfully conducted two studies. We’re delighted to announce that the network has now been funded for a second year.

The network will continue with the existing coordinating centre based in NDORMS at the University of Oxford, and the current seven data partners:

• Barts Health
• Clinical Practice Research Datalink(CPRD) [Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency]
• DataLoch, University of Edinburgh
• Great Ormond Street Hospital(GOSH)
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals(LTH),
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals(LTHT),
• University College London Hospital(UCLH),

In Year 2 the network will update, enrich and characterise its OMOP data sets, and conduct a study on cardiovascular disease.

For more on the establishment of the Network: https://ukhealthdata.org/data-standards/common-data-models/rwe-network/

For more on the Network’s data and activities: https://heron-uk.github.io/heron-uk/