This week Emma speaks to Professor Naomi Allen, chief scientist at UK Biobank, a biomedical database and research resource that contains data, information and biological samples from half a million UK participants.

Naomi, who is also a professor of epidemiology at the University of Oxford, explains how UK Biobank was established, how it works, and the wealth of data it holds.

Naomi also discusses the crucial role primary care data will play and explains how it will be incorporated into UK Biobank in the coming months.

And she outlines some of the groundbreaking research that has already been conducted using UK Biobank data and how this could revolutionise patient care in general practice in the future.

This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower. It was produced by Czarina Deen.

Useful links

UK Biobank’s website

Details on how to access UK Biobank data as a researcher

Information about UK Biobank and GP patient data

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