The Wessex Secure Data Environment (SDE) has successfully onboarded its first dataset, confirming it as fully operational for secure data handling.
The data onboarding milestone marks the second major milestone in the pre-release phase to demonstrate and test the Safe Data and Safe Projects principles. This is a crucial step for the full launch in early 2025, that will support advanced research to improve patient outcomes regionally.
It will provide a real-world demonstration of the SDE’s operational capability and readiness to support advanced research, while maintaining the highest standards of privacy and governance.
The study will be looking at survival rates and treatments for a serious and aggressive form of bladder cancer, High-Risk Invasive Urothelial Bladder Carcinoma. It aims to improve the care pathway for patients to help identify the disease earlier, improve outcomes, and enable new research into diagnostics and treatments.
Further information about the research project can be found on our Your Data page, under governance and our News section on research – Bladder cancer case study.