NHS SDEs

docs/events/wg_workshops/2023-12-05-december-meeting/discussion-nhs-sde.md

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 ## Summary
 
+The NHS network, and direction, was discussed.
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+The main principle is that health data will exist within SDEs, and that sub-optimal solutions will likely exist in the short term before full maturity of the SDE network is reached.
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+The NHS SDE team hopes to be more directly involved with the community going forwards.
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 ## Raw notes
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+- High level context of definitions -
+- 11 Regional SDEs across England + National NHSE SDE
+- Different types of SDEs
+  - some curate only
+  - some curate + have technical environment for analysis
+- NHS Research SDE Network - HDRI Gateway
+- Challenges in federation, working across multiple TRE
+- Direction of travel is that health data will exist in SDEs - policy will default to SDEs, but it ma
+- Do you go for a fully federated set up?
+- Requires common set of standards
+- There's a long road ahead in terms of maturity, will likely have to temporarily settle for sub-optimal solutions as the situation evolves
+- Link to NHS England National SDE information - https://digital.nhs.uk/services/secure-data-environment-service
+- Is there a way to get other TREs accredited for the network?
+  - Probs not for now, they won't be planning to accredit others outside the network
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+### Next steps
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+- Have an NHSE SDE policy team person attend a future session as well (March 2024)