Case Study: National Health Service unlocks safe healthcare data sharing with Privitar

Unlocking siloed data for the NHS

The National Health Service (NHS) needed a way to unlock sensitive, siloed patient data across hundreds of trusts so it could support better care, research, and medical innovation without compromising privacy. Privitar helped address this challenge with privacy-preserving data sharing and de-identification capabilities, including SecureLink for safe cross-organization linkage of datasets.

Using Privitar’s platform, NHS Digital could combine data from multiple trusts, protect sensitive attributes, preserve data utility for analysis, and add traceability and watermarking for governance. The result was safer access to richer datasets for researchers and analysts, helping the NHS improve patient outcomes, reduce waiting times, and support medical breakthroughs while keeping patient privacy and trust at the center.

National Health Service

Stuart Gunsen

Senior Project Manager