We are the national institute for health data science.
Our mission is to unite the UK's health data to enable discoveries that improve people's lives.
Find out moreThe Health Data Research Innovation Gateway provides a common entry point to discover and request access to UK health datasets. Users can search for health data tools, research projects, publications and collaborate via a community forum. Find out more.
Our mission is to unite the UK's health data to enable discoveries that improve people's lives.
Find out moreOur Data and Connectivity programme connects UK health data to accelerate research on COVID-19 and enable evidence-informed policies for responding to the pandemic.
Find out moreThe Hubs provide a rich toolkit of healthcare datasets, infrastructure and expertise for nine areas of health data research. Learn about their impact to date.
Find out moreWe're helping give young Black people in the UK opportunities to flourish in their future STEM careers and address underrepresentation in the field through our health data research Black Internship Programme.
More about the programmeNew research by SAIL Databank finds that people living in the most deprived areas were more likely to need a hip replacement but less likely to receive one than more affluent people.
1 July 2022
Largest study of body mass index (BMI) and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness using the QResearch platform suggests two doses are highly effective against severe disease for people who are...
We advance health data science by funding research that uses data at scale and by enabling others in our community to do the same.
Our vision is that every patient, clinical trial, biomedical...
We are focusing our science strategy on priority areas that will have the maximum impact for the health of patients and populations across the UK. These prioritiy areas include The Human Phenome;...
4 April 2022
In January of 2022 the UK Health Data Research Alliance (the ‘Alliance’) published recommendations for a data use register standard. The standard outlines five recommendations to support data...
The Health Data Research Innovation Gateway (the 'Gateway') search engine or 'portal' provides a common entry point for researchers and innovators to discover and request access to health...
We are committed to enabling the trustworthy use of health data for research. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have championed and led the use of Trusted Research Environments (also known as...
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