Secure Data Environment: Health Information improves lives

Our GP practice is taking part in a project to improve access to patient records for healthcare researchers and planners.

Giving researchers and planners access to patient information can help find new treatments and improve care for everyone.

They will only see coded information like your medicines, or what illnesses you have. Your name and any personal details are removed or replaced with a code before anything is accessed. They are only allowed access if they meet strict security and ethical standards. Their research must also be in the public interest. Your health records will stay within the NHS, and researchers will only be allowed to view the parts of your record that they have permission to access. Find out more about the North East and North Cumbria Secure Data Environment.

Secure Data Environment for patients and the public | North East and North Cumbria NHS