The UK Health Data Research Alliance (the 'Alliance') is an independent alliance of leading healthcare and research organisations united to establish best practice for the ethical use of UK health data for research at scale.

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UK Health Data Research Alliance welcomes new member UK LLC

The UK Health Data Research Alliance today welcomes UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) to join the current 71 members who are working collaboratively to help researchers address some...
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UK Health Data Research Alliance welcomes Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK announced today its membership of the UK Health Data Research Alliance to support research and innovation in the discovery, prevention, detection and treatment of cancer through...
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Using Linked Data for Research: Challenges and Opportunities within the UK Health Ecosystem

Widespread efforts to digitise personal health records combined with recent advances in clinical informatics offer incredible promise for a wide range of health use-cases.
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Our Work
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Alliance Trusted Research Environments (TRE)

We are working to meet researchers’ technical and functionality requirements, whilst providing confidence to data custodians and the public, via a rigorous system of data access.
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Improving transparency in data use

We are working to standardise content, format and frequency of publication of data use registers.
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Data Standards and Quality Sub-Group

Comprising data officers from across the Alliance, this sub-group coordinates Alliance guidance and policy regarding data quality, data standards, meta data standards, dataset publishing, and data provenance.
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The Health Data Research Innovation Gateway

A one-stop-shop to discover, access, manage and drive the ethical and safe use of data, exploiting cutting-edge analytics and big data technologies to improve health outcomes for people across the UK.
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About our members

The Alliance members work together to offer an exceptional opportunity to provide access to rich and diverse health data for research and innovation in a trustworthy and ethical way.

73 Alliance Members

A snapshot of some of our members...

Our members represent the UK’s major NHS organisations including NHS trusts, research charities, institutes and registries, bringing high value datasets, new approaches to developing tools and techniques for data research at scale to make improvements to people’s lives through research.

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