The UK Health Data Research Alliance develops and co-ordinates the adoption of tools, techniques, conventions, technologies, and designs that enable the use of health data in a trustworthy and ethical way for research and innovation.

The Alliance has established a number of delivery sub-groups. For further details on individual sub groups, please see below.

Trust and Transparency
We are working to harmonise and simplify data access for healthcare research and to earn public trust in the use of their data.  The issues of information governance and public confidence are closely linked and have been brought together by the Alliance in a single Trust and Transparency workstream. 
Trust and Transparency
Data Standards
Achieving widespread adoption of internationally recognise data standards across the UK is at the core of the Alliance’s mission. Data standards are crucial to the success of health data science, providing consistency, comparability and reproducibility across diverse data assets and enabling robust and reliable research across different regions and countries.
Data Standards
Developing Technology Services
The aim of this workstream is to support the convening of a network of technologists across the NHS, academia, policy and industry to align efforts, share tools, collaborate on shared components, drive adoption of recognised standards and accelerate trustworthy data use for research and innovation. This workstream also supports the continued development of the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway (the Gateway), a portal for data discovery and access. 
Developing Technology Services
Capacity Building
The Alliance and its members are striving to build capacity in health data research. While there are ongoing initiatives tackling skills gaps in data science, more work is needed to ensure the UK has the skilled and representative workforce it needs to flourish. 
Capacity Building