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Accessing CPRD data

The current Queen Mary CPRD Multi Study Licence (MSL) ends in August 2027. Our MSL team have now reached the maximum number of projects that we can extract and deliver before this date.

For the purposes of funding applications, we advise anyone submitting grant funding applications from now on to calculate CPRD costs based on a Single Study Licence. This will represent the maximum you would need to pay for the licence. Details of CPRD pricing can be found here: https://www.cprd.com/access-data/pricing  

From now on, you can access CPRD data in two ways:

Option 1: Submit your protocol under the MSL and request that CPRD extract your data

  • You must request that CPRD extract and deliver all your data. This will incur an additional cost of £6,600, payable to CPRD.
  • You still need to pay to access the MSL data – we have revised our MSL fees down so that PhD students will pay £5,000 and all other projects will pay £20,000 for access to Gold, Aurum, HES APC, and Small Area Level datasets. Fees for any other linked data you request will be payable to CPRD.
  • You still need to complete mandatory training and sign a Terms of Use document to access your data under the MSL

Important things to consider if you choose this option: 

  • It is not guaranteed that CPRD will have capacity to extract/deliver your data under the MSL.
  • If CPRD have capacity to extract/deliver your data, they will issue an ‘amendment to MSL contract’ outlining your request and itemising costs. If the amendment with CPRD is not signed and paid for before 31 August 2027, you will need to amend your project to a Single Study Licence.

Option 2: Submit your protocol to CPRD as a Single Study Licence

  • Details of CPRD pricing can be found here: https://www.cprd.com/access-data/pricing  
  • Liaise with CPRD only - there will be no involvement from our MSL team and no fees charged by us. Data will be delivered and analysed within CPRD SAFE.

If your project was approved before 14 October 2026, your project will be accepted on the previous terms and conditions of the MSL.

Please continue to notify our MSL Team of any project you are submitting to CPRD (whether under the MSL, or as a SSL). If you have any queries, please email the MSL team: wiph-cprd@qmul.ac.uk 

Terms of Use

 

For CPRD protocols approved before 14 October 2026:

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