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New for September 2025

We have added two new data sets to this release:

  • Participant geographies data by country and region
  • NHS England Emergency Care data set

This first release of participant geographies data is predominantly made up of participants who joined the Our Future Health programme when we first began recruitment in 2022.

We’re continuing to backfill country and region data for all consented participants. This will be made available in the next data release in December 2025.

Our growing data set

Included in the September 2025 release:

102,103
participants with geographical data

1,900,495
participants with completed baseline health questionnaires

650,870
participants with genotype array data

1,433,275
participants with clinic measurements data

1,703,250
participants successfully linked to an NHS number

of which

1,648,662

participants have at least one secondary care or death registration record

Find out more about the data and cohort.

About the Our Future Health research programme

We’re bringing together data from up to 5 million adults in the UK. Registered researchers can request access to this data and analyse it to discover new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases.

The aims of the programme

The programme aims to provide 2 main resources for health research:

  • an observational data set for basic science, epidemiological discovery and aetiological research
  • a cohort of participants who can be contacted for translational research

Our research resources

Registered researchers at Our Future Health can:

  • request access to our baseline health questionnaire, our genotype array data, NHS England linked health records, participant geographies, and our clinic measurements data. In the future, we will make more data types available. Learn more about our data types.
  • apply to access the highly secure Our Future Health Trusted Research Environment (TRE) to conduct analysis and collaborate with your colleagues
  • use the wide range of data analysis tools available in the TRE

Apply to access the data