Health Data Research UK
We are uniting the UK’s health data to enable discoveries that improve people’s lives.
By making health data available to researchers and innovators we can better understand diseases and find ways to prevent, treat and cure them.
What is health data science?
Health data science combines maths, statistics and technology to study different types of health problems using data. It helps us to better understand diseases and conditions and can provide new ways of treating them or spotting them earlier
UK Health Data Research Alliance
Find out about the UK Health Data Research Alliance, an alliance of leading health, care and research organisations united to establish best practice to enable the ethical use of UK health data for research and innovation at scale
Health Data Research Innovation Gateway
Created with input from patients and researchers, this first phase of the Gateway provides a library of information about over 400 health datasets that are held and managed by the NHS, research charities, research institutes and universities
Featured News
Our news and events
Update
31 March 2020
Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) has developed significantly since starting in 2018, in terms of the scale of communities involved, programmes of work and impact on the health of patients and...
News announcement
10 March 2020
Today Health Data Research has announced the appointment of Lord James O’Shaughnessy to its non-Executive Board.
Following an extensive recruitment and search process, James will join the...
Update
31 January 2020
The seven new Health Data Research Hubs, which went live on 1 October 2019, have reached their first key milestone within 3 months. This funding milestone required the Hubs to deliver information...
Our latest research
HDR UK publication
20 December 2019
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