Wessex Secure Data Environment - Home Part of the NHS Research Secure Data Environment Network NHS

Welcome to the Wessex Secure Data Environment

Our vision: The Wessex Secure Data Environment will unlock the potential of your NHS data to support research, create life-saving new treatments and medicines, and bring wider benefits to patients and our NHS.

This is a fully NHS-led and owned project.

About us
Hey, who are you? Hi, I'm Secure Data Environment. They call me this because l'm a platform that provides a safe home for data, a place where it lives and is looked after. If people want to visit my data, they have to have good intentions, to treat it with care and to go through a training process.

Patients and the public will be at the heart of decision making for the Wessex SDE.

We will work together to set the values that guide it, the rules that govern it, and agree how it is run.

Dr Christopher Kipps

Dr Christopher Kipps

Wessex SDE Project Lead and Professor of Clinical Neurology & Dementia, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Our mission

Our mission is to build an online platform where large amounts of NHS patient data can be stored, linked together, and accessed by researchers.

This platform is the Wessex Secure Data Environment. It will be built to the highest privacy and security standards for NHS data. It will be run to support the discovery of new and better treatments and medicines, and planning to improve the way the NHS works.

Read more about us

Our values

We want you to be confident that your health data is safe, secure, and used appropriately to meet your needs and those of your community.

The values that guide the Wessex Secure Data Environment have been co-designed with the public that we serve. Together we have defined these values and how they are put into practice by the SDE.

http://Heart

Benefits everyone

Deliver clear and tangible benefits, shared fairly and inclusively for all communities.

Better together

Involve the public through all stages of the SDE, engaging with all communities through clear communication.

http://padlock

Privacy and security first and foremost

Strictly controlled access with independently scrutinised safeguards and limits on authorised users.

Open and honest

Be clear about how the SDE uses your data and what potential benefits this will bring.

http://Scales

Delivers good value

Supports research that delivers measurable improvement to patient outcomes, making the best use of NHS resources.

Respects people's choices

Gives you the option to opt out and provides clear information about benefits and risks to inform your decision.

http://Handshake

Only positive industry partnerships

Build industry partnerships that are collaborative, transparent, accountable, time-bound, and deliver measurable benefits.

http://check

Governance and quality assurance

Strong and transparent governance, with independent checks on how the SDE is run and the quality of its data.

Project highlights

See our latest news and featured updates. Read about technical developments and research projects we are supporting.

For opportunities to help shape the design of the SDE have a look at our Get Involved page.

Sign up for our newsletter

Innovating Lung Cancer Detection with Wessex SDE

Research Project
Wessex SDE in a pioneering project to enhance lung cancer diagnosis using advanced data…

Tapping genetic insights into the causes of cancer

Research Project

Wessex SDE gets green light from the Health Research Authority

Milestone