The TVS SDE Team

The TVS SDE team, brings together a diverse group of professionals dedicated to delivering secure, efficient, and innovative data services across the region. The team is structured into key functional areas, each contributing distinct expertise to ensure the secure and effective delivery of the service across the region:

• Strategic Oversight: senior leaders and steering groups provide direction, governance, and alignment with national priorities. 

• Technical: software and data engineers, architects, and cloud specialists build and maintain the platform. 
• Service: a dedicated service team, comprising managers, analysts and engineers, ensures effective operational delivery, led by analysts and engineers. 
• Commercial: commercial experts oversee project access requests, collaborations and contracting with all users of the SDE.  
• Engagement: engagement specialists focus on public involvement, academic collaboration, provider onboarding, and communications. 
• Governance: The Caldicott Guardian and Information Governance team ensure compliance and safety with laws, regulations, best practice and local processes. 
• Programme Management: programme and support managers coordinate delivery, special projects, and support functions. 

Each area is led by experienced professionals who bring subject-matter expertise and strategic oversight to their area of responsibility.

Public Members

A public member is someone who does not work in the statutory health and care, or within research, and who sits on a committee to advocate for public, families, carers, patients and service users interests and views.

The TVS SDE is committed to including patients and the public in the design, delivery and governance structures and processes of our programme. In order to support this commitment, it is essential that our committees include diverse membership from the public, to ensure that the experience and views of the public, families, carers, patients and service users are understood and acted on.

Whilst the different committees have specific focus, the role of a public member is the same, to: Provide critical friend challenge; Champion a diversity of patient and public views, and not just represent their own experience; Support patient and public awareness of the TVS SDE Programme and its work; Review and comment on documentation.

Health & Care Members

Health and Care Members support the work of the TVS SDE by sitting on the SARC

The role of a Health and Care Member is to: Provide critical professional challenge; Consider a wide perspective of stakeholder and data controller views from across TVS, and not just represent their own experience; Support health and care professional awareness of the TVS SDE Programme and its work; Review and comment on documentation.

Health & Care Members are drawn from a range of professional backgrounds, sectors and geographical areas. Members are not being asked to represent the whole of the communities/professional groups that they come from.