Dr. Yvonne Silove – lead for Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership’s Understanding Health Data Access shares the background to the project.

The second UK Health Data Research Alliance Symposium took virtually on 1 December 2020.

Ahead of its showpiece Alliance Symposium event on 1st December, HDR UK today welcomes Public Health Scotland and the UK Brain Bank Network, currently hosted by the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at Edinburgh University, to the UK Health Data Research Alliance. Both based in Scotland, the inclusion of these...

Guest Blog: Stephen Lock, Interim Chief Information and Technology Officer, NIHR CRN

The UK Health Data Research Alliance Board agreed to move beyond the ‘Green Paper’ phase of the Trusted Research Environment (TRE) programme at its meeting on 23 July 2020.  We are now pleased to publish our updated paper which is the result of a collaborative community effort. There was agreement in the concept and...

Three new members have joined the UK Health Data Research Alliance, a consortium of leading health data custodians and research organisations, working to accelerate the use of health data to improve health and care across the country. Thirty-three organisations in total have now joined the Alliance in the 18 months since its...

Data Safe Havens are an essential way of managing risk of unauthorised re-identification of individuals from de-identified data. This risk heightens with increased data linkage across a wider range of data sets. To date, most of the focus of Data Safe Havens has been on the people, processes and technology required to...

Three new members have joined the UK Health Data Research Alliance to support its goal of accelerating the use of health data to improve health and care across the UK. The new members will enrich and expand the range of datasets discoverable through the Innovation Gateway. This will include the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit at...

The inaugural UK Health Data Research Alliance Symposium took place in London on 4th February 2020. The event brought together more than 150 people working across the UK Health Data Research Alliance, Health Data Research Hubs, Innovation Gateway, Sandbox and others working closely with HDR UK on infrastructure.