nhs scotland Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care (HSC-PBPP)

How to access health data in Scotland.

Your application for access to data is managed by Public Health Scotland (PHS) electronic Data Research and Innovation Service (eDRIS) .

Initial enquiries for data access should be submitted to Research Data Scotland (RDS), who will pass on this information to the eDRIS team.

eDRIS support your data, analytical and access needs.

NHS Scotland Public Benefit and Privacy Panel for Health and Social Care (HSC-PBPP) is a governance structure of NHSScotland (NHSS) to scrutinise and consider your application purpose for public benefit and information governance requirements.

Information governance (IG) is an enabler to access Scotland’s data and the HSC-PBPP provides robust, transparent, consistent, appropriate and proportionate IG and scrutiny of data access requests to ensure the IG principles of safe people, safe projects, safe data, safe places are maintained.

For a new application

Go to the Information for Applicants tab for details about what to do if you have a request for access to health data in Scotland. 

or Amendment to an Approved Application

Go to the Application Amendments tab for details about what to do to request an amendment to a previously approved application. 

Full details of how we use your information, and how we maintain your right to privacy, can be found on the Public Health Scotland Privacy and Cookies page