Secure Data Environment services

Data services

We can provide access to a range of data from different health care sectors and specialities across North East and North Cumbria, including the following:

  • Primary care
  • Secondary acute care, including outpatients, inpatients and emergency care
  • Community care
  • 111 and 999 encounters
  • Prescribing
  • Mental health, including NHS Talking Therapies services and mental health trust extracts
  • Maternity and newborn care, with specialised BadgerNet extracts
  • Pathway and referrals

 

We can also support you to 'Bring Your Own Data'. Subject to governance approval, we can link this to our datasets. We can also request additional, bespoke datasets from our providers.

 

We can also link with the NHS Secure Data Environment Network to support cross-SDE projects.

 

A full list of available datasets are published on the HDR UK Health Data Gateway.   

 

Platform services

A secure workspace within the SDE will be implemented for each project. The standard package for a secure workspace includes a cloud-based VDI providing access to an instance of the platform, a suite of included tools, and support capabilities. 

 

Technical summary: 

  • Secure Windows (Azure) VDI   

  • Standard 4 v cores and 32GB of memory  

 

Included tools 

  • Office 365 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote) 

  • Power BI desktop 

  • SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 

  • Azure Data Studio 

  • RStudio 

  • R Statistical Language 

  • Git based repository and Tortoise Git 

  • Nexus Repository Manager 

  • Python 

  • VDI - Windows (Azure supported) 

  • Visual Studio (VS) Code 

  • Pandoc 

  • Jupyter Notebook 

  • Conda 

  • Mamba 

  • OpenStreetMap tile server 

  • dbt core 

 

Optional Tools (may incur additional service charges) 

  • Azure Data Factory (ADF)  

  • Azure Machine Learning (ML) 

  • Stata  

 

Additional platform services 

  • Submit a request for a third-party tool that is not part of the secure workspace standard package 

  • Bring Your Own Code: Users can request to bring their own code to be used within the Secure Workspace. 

  • Computing Power Review / Increase: Increased compute power to suit your needs. 

 

All requests for additional services are subject to approval.  

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Find out more

Please get in touch if you have any questions about the Secure Data Environment, or if you would like to access data for research or planning purposes.

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Contact the North East and North Cumbria SDE team