Health Data Research Innovation Gateway and associated infrastructure services

The Health Data Research Innovation Gateway and associated infrastructure services aims to enable a UK-wide life sciences ecosystem that provides responsible and safe access to health data, technology and science, research and innovation services to ask and answer important health and care questions.

The Programme integrates with and reinforces Health Data Research UK’s investment in health data science and talent development, to stimulate the use of health data to make lives longer and healthier.

The Health Data Research Innovation Gateway acts as a common portal through which researchers and innovators in academia, industry and the NHS can search for and request access to UK health research data. It supports the use of data, facilitates interoperability, and provides analytical capability. It provides the following functions: 1.

The ability to search for available data 2. The facilitation of access requests to multiple data custodians 3. Integration with accredited Trusted Research Environments to provide secure access to linked datasets 4. A library of curated analytics tools and scripts 5.

A dashboard to show usage and quality of datasets for research and innovation to provide transparency to data users, data custodians and the public 6. The Gateway will not store or hold health data.

Data security is paramount and data will continue to be held by data custodians in Trusted Research Environments The Gateway is designed to operate at a national and international scale, and to be scalable as the uses of health data increases.

HDR UK works in partnership with stakeholders across data custodians and other bodies such as NHS England, the health research departments of the devolved nations, academic institutions, charities and industry, embedding close involvement and engagement with the public and patients to ensure that public trust is at the heart of investments.