Health data skills, built around your life.
Short videos, expert-led courses and live events - free to start, flexible to fit. Build the skills that healthcare and research need from you next.
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Wherever you're starting from, there's a path for you.
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One platform. Everything you need to grow.
Expert-led courses
Structured learning, designed and delivered by researchers, clinicians and practitioners. Free to access, at your own pace.
Browse courses→Bite-sized videos
Over a hundred focused videos. Perfect for a lunch break, a commute, or the gap between meetings.
Browse videos→Signposted training
A curated map of training from across the health data ecosystem - one place to find your next step.
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No schedules, no pressure. Over 100 focused, high-impact videos - perfect for a lunch break, a commute, or the gap between meetings.
Why learners choose Futures.
- Flexible
- Learn on your own timetable. Pause, resume, revisit - on any device.
- Free to access
- Most of the content on Futures is completely free to access.
- Taught by experts
- Courses and events created by people who do the work - in the NHS, research and industry.
- Recognised skills
- Gain valuable, CPD-accredited skills for using healthcare data to level up your career and your CV.
- Backed by HDR UK
- Every course is checked and approved by the UK's national institute for health data research.
- Access to events
- Attend events run by thought leaders from the NHS, industry and world-class universities.
Start building your health data skills today.
Free to join, flexible to fit. Your next step in health data starts here.
