TRE/SDE Data access agreement

This Data Access Agreement (DAA) is freely available to use and is intended for use where data is accessed within a Trusted Research Environment (TRE) for the purposes of research and development for the public good. 

The DAA has been developed by the TRE Legal Toolkit Action Force of the Pan UK Data Governance Steering Group. The Pan UK Data Governance Steering Group is a working Group of the UK Health Data Research Alliance representing data custodians and policymakers across the four nations. The Steering Group is focused on simplifying and streamlining data access governance processes.

The DAA terms and conditions should not be modified. The annexes are customisable to allow for differences between TREs. 

We are providing a Personal Data and a Non-Personal Data template

The latter intended for use only where the data accessed in the TRE and the Data Output are both not considered Personal Data or Confidential Patient Information (CPI) from the perspective of the Approved User and their Approved User Organisation who are accessing the data on behalf of the Sponsor Organisation. If research will involve access to Data that is Personal Data or CPI, or the creation of Data Outputs that are likely to become Personal Data or CPI in the hands of the intended recipients, the Personal Data version must be used.