# Welcome

### About the Our Future Health research programme <a href="#about-the-our-future-health-research-programme" id="about-the-our-future-health-research-programme"></a>

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 programme aims to provide two main resources for health research:

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

Find out more about our [Programme design and recruitment](https://ourfuturehealth.gitbook.io/our-future-health/~/changes/112/programme/programme-design-and-recruitment).&#x20;

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### The available data

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards" data-full-width="false"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th><th data-hidden data-type="files"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="data/participant-data"><strong>Participant data</strong></a></td><td>Contains registration, consent and baseline demographic information collected across all consented participants.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="data/questionnaire-data"><strong>Questionnaire data</strong></a></td><td>Contains self-reported health information, details about participants' household, socioeconomic status, work and education history and family history.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="data/genotype-array-data"><strong>Genotype array data</strong></a></td><td>Contains single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data extracted from blood and made available in two different file formats.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="data/linked-health-records-data"><strong>Linked health records data</strong></a></td><td>Contains health records provided by the National Health Service (NHS) in England: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data sets (Admitted Patient Care, Outpatient, Accident &#x26; Emergency, Emergency Care Dataset), registrations of death from the Office for National Statistics, and cancer registry and pathway datasets from the National Disease Registration Service.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="data/clinic-measurements-data/procedure-for-clinic-measurements"><strong>Clinic measurements data</strong></a></td><td>Contains baseline physical health measurements for participants taken at their clinic appointment by trained staff.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="data/participant-geographies-data"><strong>Participant geographies data</strong></a></td><td>Contains geographic information derived from participants’ self-reported address at the time of registration to the Our Future Health programme.</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

For information on the current data release go to [Data releases](https://ourfuturehealth.gitbook.io/our-future-health/~/changes/112/data/data-releases).&#x20;