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Digital Critical Friends–led Website Improvements
Between June and September 2025, our Digital Critical Friends (DCFs) completed a review of SDE policies and public-facing information, highlighting a number of areas where transparency and accessibility could be…
Health Data User Group launches cohort 2 of its User Advisory Group – sign up now!
The Health Data User Group (HDUG) is delighted to share it is recruiting to cohort 2 of its User Advisory Group (UAG). Established in July 2025 as an extension to the Health…
New Impact Report: How public voices shape the Wessex SDE
The Wessex Secure Data Environment (SDE) continues to place public trust and transparency at the heart of its development, with the latest impact report showing how patient and public insight…
Wessex Public Panel on NHS Data sets out public expectations for NHS data use
A diverse group of residents from across Wessex has helped shape how NHS patient data should be used for research. Their recommendations, published today, set out what people in Wessex…
£600m new funding to accelerate health research and delivery of the SDE Network
On Monday 7 April, the Prime Minister announced that the Government and the Wellcome Trust will invest up to £600 million to create a new Health Data Research Service. This…
Listening to Seldom-Heard Voices in Wessex
Wessex SDE Publishes Engagement Report…
Wessex SDE enables world-first research featured on the BBC
We are pleased that the innovative Data Sustains Life project, led by the Pre-hospital Research and Audit Network (PRANA), has been featured by the BBC. This pioneering research seeks to…
Wessex Pre-release Secure Data Environment (SDE) Launch
Wessex Secure Data Environment Pre-Release platform achieves key milestone in data security and research readiness The Wessex Secure Data Environment (SDE) is pleased to announce the pre-release launch of its…
DCFs and the delivery of the Public Panel
Some of our Digital Critical Friends explain their involvement in our Wessex Public Panel on NHS Data in their own…
DCF Involvement in the SDE
Our DCFs talk about why they got involved in the SDE and what they have been doing…