​Charges

In line with NHS England guidance, we make charges to users based on our costs of providing access to the patient data within the BHDP and on the value of the data to your project. The access cost charges are described below, while the data value charges are established through negotiation with our Commercial Team, during the DAC approval process.

​​Access Charges

The charges to access the BHDP are described below. Minimally, a request to access patient data for research purposes for one user in the BHDP would be £3500 + Azure charges in the first year. This is broken down as:

  • £2000: Full data request from one organisation

  • £1000: Project workspace in the SDE (per annum)

  • £500: Single user for the workspace in the SDE (per annum)

  • Azure usage charges

Additional consultancy charges may be made for custom data, environments and data science support which would be flagged up during the DAC process.

​Available Services

Service Charge Description
Process Full Data Request (First named organisation in the request) £2000 Charge to review and process a Data Access Request for research or commercial use. Subject to user responding promptly to any clarifications, external ethical and research governance process having been completed, requests will usually be processed within 2 months.
Process Full Data Request (Each additional organisation named in the request) £1000
Process Provisional Data Request £0 Charge to provide feedback on an outline Data Access Request form – usually within 2 months.
Process Clinical Request £0 Charge to process a straightforward request to access patient data for direct clinical care by just BHT staff. Requests will usually be processed within 1 month.
Project Workspace £1000 Recurring annual charge for a project workspace to be set up and managed for any part of the year. Project workspace will usually be provisioned within 1 week after any contract has been signed.
New Workspace user £500 Recurring annual charge for a user to access a project workspace for any part of the year to access patient data. New workspace users will generally be provisioned within 1 week once they have completed verification and any contract has been signed.
Returning Workspace user who is currently certified to use the BHDP £250 The same current active user requesting access to further project workspaces in the SDE.
Consultancy £500 Daily charge to build custom data sets, engaging with the data science team, or provide bespoke analysis environments. A timescale and cost to deliver the required service will normally be agreed within 2 weeks of the initial request. If the project expects to need extensive technical support, we would propose that we are included as a partner in any related funding application.
Compute & Storage charges Variable These are dependent on the Azure resources provisioned within the project workspace by the project management. An organisational specific billing account can be assigned to the subscription if one is provided (our preferred option). Otherwise, these will be billed to the organisation periodically with a 10% handling charge.