PIONEER is Health Research Authority and Confidential Advisory Group supported research database and analytical environment which includes highly granular, longitudinal health record data from more than 2 million patients over a 20-year period.
Evergreen and expanding, PIONEER links data from community and hospital care providers. We operate to international data security standards, accredited with ISO 27001.
We enable data access for research which improves lives through the development of better healthcare for patients. Data access can be requested by health care staff, academic researchers, companies, policy makers, think tanks, regulators and the third sector.
All data requests are reviewed by our Data Trust Committee, a group of public citizens, who decide whether the data access request is likely to lead to public good, that the data request is reasonable and that any risks have been considered and mitigated. They are supported by non-voting experts to provide advice. 80% of the Data Trust Committee must approve a data access request for it to be supported.
Data access is provided under licence.
PIONEER operates both the and a local Opt Out for patients, increasing the choices people have in the use of their health data for research. We also run a series of public facing meetings and workshops, to increase awareness of our work.
