Data Use Register

The data use register is a summary of the research projects that have been given approval to use health data through the West Midlands Secure Data Environment.

Our Data Use Register shows how researchers are using data, so that patients and members of the public can feel confident that their data is only being used in the correct way and for the correct reasons; it also helps researchers understand the type of health information the SDE holds.

Approved projects have been reviewed by our data access committee (DAC), to ensure that all research which uses data through the West Midlands SDE, is in the public interest and carried out in the correct way. Exceptions to this, are data projects which are supported under a different legal framework.

The current version of the Data Use Register (DUR) is set as a beta stage release and this has been co‑developed with users and members of the public, which is ongoing. Collaboratively, we are working to optimise the DUR and this will continue into 2026/27.

Click on the project title below and to reveal further information such as, lay summary, public benefit statement and dataset name.