Founded in 2019, MD DataVault has grown from a specialist data curation consultancy into one of the UK’s most trusted medical data brokerage platforms — serving pharmaceutical companies, clinical research organisations, academic institutions, and health-tech innovators.
The UK generates some of the richest longitudinal health data in the world. NHS records spanning decades, primary care data from over 60 million registered patients, genomic biobank linkages, and real-world outcome registries. But that data remains largely inaccessible to the organisations that could use it most.
Regulatory barriers, fragmented governance, inconsistent coding, and siloed data systems mean that the journey from “we need data” to “we have data we can actually use” can take months — or fail entirely. MD DataVault was built to change that.
We act as the trusted intermediary: building the relationships with data controllers, investing in the compliance infrastructure, and delivering clean, properly documented datasets so your team can focus on the science, not the paperwork.
Former NHS Digital programme director with 18 years in health data strategy. PhD in Clinical Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh.
Previously Head of Data Science at a leading NHS Academic Health Science Network. Specialist in federated analytics and data quality frameworks.
Solicitor specialising in data protection law. Former Information Governance Lead at a major NHS Foundation Trust.
We normalise raw source data to international standards (ICD-10, SNOMED CT, OPCS-4, HL7 FHIR) and apply validated missing-data imputation where appropriate, delivering analysis-ready outputs.
Our multi-stage de-identification pipeline achieves k-anonymity thresholds appropriate to each use case, with full audit trails satisfying ICO and NHS IG requirements.
Every dataset ships with a Data Processing Agreement, methodology report, privacy impact assessment summary, and data dictionary — reducing your compliance overhead significantly.
We operate ISO 27001-certified infrastructure with end-to-end encryption, audit logging, and flexible delivery options including secure data rooms, encrypted SFTP, and REST API.
Whether you need a standard cohort or a highly customised dataset built to protocol, our team is ready to help.