About us

History

The ORCHID Trusted Research Environment is home to the Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) and the ORCHID Epidemiology Research (ORCHID-E) database.

The Oxford-RCGP RSC has been part of the development of one of Europe's oldest general practice sentinel networks and has been the primary source for disease surveillance in England since 1957. The University of Oxford has been the provider of the Oxford-RCGP RSC since 2019, and is commissioned by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to provide surveillance services, in partnership with RCGP, across general practices in England. The RSC is based within the Clinical Informatics and Health Outcomes Research Group, which is part of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.

For more detail follow this link: Surveillance.

ORCHID-E is a double pseudonymised research database that facilitates well-designed epidemiological research, with a focus on primary care.  It includes computerised medical records data from over 2000 general practices, and over 20 million patients. The aim of ORCHID-E is to provide researchers access to patient-level, double pseudonymised, coded and numeric clinical linked data to facilitate  preventive health care, diagnosis, risk prediction, clinical management and patient outcomes and to inform health care policy and practice. Additionally, it may be used to develop feasibility and sample size calculations for the development and design of trials and other interventional studies.

For more detail follow this link: Epidemiology.