UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration

NSHD is one of many UK longitudinal research studies contributing to the Longitudinal Health & Wellbeing National Core Study for COVID-19 research. This has been designed by the UK’s top scientists to allow longitudinal studies – such as NSHD – to fully contribute to the national research programme and policy development. To do this, many studies need to put their COVID-19 relevant data into a single secure research environment to build scale and numbers across diverse population groups, occupations and other factors associated with COVID-19 risk, and from all over the UK. It is also necessary to link these participants to their health and wellbeing, administrative and environmental records to follow changes in status  (e.g. who has had COVID-19, who has been vaccinated during the pandemic and as we return to normal. This research programme looks at the big picture which includes COVID-19 itself, but also the impact that lockdown and other restrictions have had on wider health (such as mental health, or cancer care and other ongoing health needs), education and families.

To achieve this the Longitudinal Health & Wellbeing National Core Study has established the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC).  The UK LLC has been set up to bring together information from longitudinal study volunteers with their routine records. This is being done in a secure way to help researchers work to improve health and wellbeing throughout and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

For more information about the UK LLC, please see their website.

To view their privacy notice.