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I was a director in the start-up phase of Health Data Research UK. This has hubs across the country providing data from hospitals, GPs and many other sources—anonymised at the point of transfer—for the research communities in our universities. This is transforming the results of vaccine trials and medical devices. The work was led by Professor Andrew Morris at the University of Edinburgh, who is now also a senior government adviser. In some ways, it parallels the data systems around Tesco Clubcard, where we aggregated customer data so that we could spot trends and needs to serve our customers better.