The Wessex Secure Data Environment (or SDE) is unlocking 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.
How should we run the SDE? Our Improving Tomorrow’s Health campaign is asking people in Wessex to tell us how the SDE should be run to ensure it meets our local needs and aspirations.
The Wessex Secure Data Environment is a secure, NHS-owned platform.
But this isn’t just about technology - it’s about people. Across Wessex, patients and the public are sharing their hopes, concerns, and expectations for how this platform should be run. Their voices are shaping the future of NHS data use. I invite you to join the conversation and help us make sure the Wessex SDE works for everyone. Your voice matters!"
Dr Christopher Kipps
Wessex SDE Project Lead and Professor of Clinical Neurology & Dementia, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Our vision is to unlock the power of NHS data to support research, create life-saving new treatments and medicines, and bring wider benefits to patients and our NHS.
Our mission is to provide an online platform where large amounts of NHS patient data is stored, linked together, and accessed by researchers.
This platform is the Wessex Secure Data Environment. It has been built to the highest privacy and security standards for NHS data.
The Wessex SDE will only realise our ambition and the potential benefit of the SDE if we have the support, confidence and trust of our community.
We are committed openly sharing information, resources and further information about our SDE and the wider SDE Network.
See our latest news and featured updates. Read about technical developments and research projects we are supporting.
To help shape the design of the SDE and share your thoughts, have a look at our Have Your Say page.
