The UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) is open for business

The team behind the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration are delighted to announce that the UK LLC is open for applications from the UK-based research community.

As part of the COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study, beta-testing has been completed and is now open to applications.

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. These data are held in a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) provided by SeRP UK based at Swansea University Medical School.

The UK LLC is operated by the University of Bristol and the University of Edinburgh. It is embedded within HDR UK's COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study.