TREs in the NHS – how health data sharing is saving lives

NHS Digital’s director of research and clinical trials, Michael Chapman, looks at the organisation’s development of a trusted research environment (TRE) in the NHS. He is joined by Health Data Research UK’s Susheel Varma who explains the benefits of using TREs for data sharing and Professor Angela Wood and Dr Will Whiteley of consortium CVD-COVID-UK to discuss how the new environment is working for them on the front line of clinical research.

There has been much debate in the past twelve months about the future of health data sharing. The announcement last spring of a proposed change to the way primary care data will be collected in England has energised public debates with conversations across the country about...