Where we fit - TRE
Where TRE fits into the regional and national network of Save Havens.
Where we fit
As part of the University of Dundee (Scottish Registered Charity SCO15096) we do not own or sell data.
We are the East regional node for the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) and NHS Scotland Research and Development (represented in green on the map).
We are part of the Scottish Safe Haven Network which includes 4 regional Safe Havens (Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh) and one national Safe Haven. We comply with the Scottish Safe Haven Charter, an agreed set of standards for secure data access. We have operated for over a decade to provision secure research with health data.
Health data ecosystem
The World Health Organization created one image to explain a health data ecosystem. For us, this is about balancing our responsibilities to allow the flow of data, trust, and value to move within our wider ecosystem.
We curate data for data controllers including NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government and are accountable to the CSO. Locally, we work with partners including NHS Tayside, NHS Fife, NHS Forth Valley, and Tayside Medical Science Centre (TASC). Re-use of NHS data can enable significant advances in healthcare innovation, medical technology industry, and improve our scientific understanding, which benefits all of us. Our TRE capabilities are strengthened by our governance policies, including the International Standard for Information Security (ISO 27001) and NHS England’s Data Security and Protection Toolkit accreditation.
We do not control access to NHS data but could be considered as ‘gatekeepers’. Our standard operating procedures and information security standards are published openly. Our TRE is used to securely store NHS data and to provide research ready extracts when approvals are in place.