North West Secure Data Environment

The North West SDE is currently under development and aims to launch in 2025-26. Our ambition is to make a positive health and care impact with people in the North West through better use of their data.

The North West SDE is a collaboration covering a combined population of 7.4 million people. The collaboration includes the three integrated care systems in the North West of England:

• Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership 
• Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership
• Lancashire and South Cumbria Health and Care Partnership

This includes the two diverse cities of Liverpool and Greater Manchester and the costal and rural communities of Lancashire and South Cumbria.

The North West SDE is currently completing the build phase of the programme.

In development are:

• the process to request access to data though a data access committee
• the data catalogue
• a concierge service to support applicants with enquiries

Project specific data will be accessed via a secure Azure Trusted Research Environment (TRE) workspace that holds tooling required to undertake analytical work within the platform.

Researchers will have the ability to bring their own technology, code and data.

To find out more about the North West Secure Data Environment:

• email the team at [email protected]
• visit the North West SDE website